Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 18:08:37 EST


In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0007211543460.12570-100000@anime.net>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote:
>> So, would it be feasible to make it possible to disable direct hardware
>> access (/dev/mem, /dev/nvram, HD ioctls, what else?) completely in kernel
>> config?
>
>I would certainly feel better if this were possible, in which case Andre's
>patch would be more reasonable.

It _is_ possible. Check out "capabilities".

Mike.

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