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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm sure somebody somewhere hates it, but I was thinking something
> like the attached.

I certainly like it. 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.

Anyway, I wanted to do -rc2 yesterday, but I don't really want this
kernel build problem to remain (even if it's not a very relevant
config for most people).

So if people can quickly agree on this, I'll take it and do -rc2 later
today, otherwise I'll do Joe's trivial patch as a stop-gap measure
pending approval for cleanup/fixing the security interfaces.

                              Linus
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