Re: [PATCH] Fix dmesg_restrict build failure with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=yand CONFIG_PRINTK=n

[Eric Paris]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the old rule should have been that you _have_
> to call cap_syslog(), then just eviscerating that entirely and putting
> it in the generic code is definitely the right thing.

That is the rule for ALL of the hooks in commoncap.c.  The one time I
tried to do something else *cough*mmap_min_addr*cough* I screwed it
up.  I'll put a note in my todo list about looking into lifting all of
commoncap.c into the callers.

-Eric
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