Re: [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now, the above will not necessarily work with a legacy /dev/ directory
> where al the nodes have been pre-populated, and opening the device
> node is supposed to load the module. So _historically_ we did indeed
> load modules as normal users. But does that really happen any more?

Sadly, it looks like bluetoothd actually does expect to load the
bt-proto-XYZ modules with no capabilities at all.

So apparently we really do depend on not needing capabilities for
module loading.

Oh well.

                 Linus