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From: Alan Cox
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Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008 - 8:29 am
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
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> > > > For debug tools that would be almost all drivers, and for distribution > > use that needs to be a runtime selection. > > is boottime (read: kernel parameter) ok ? > it would totally make sense to have a kernel boot parameter that > disables all /dev/mem sanity checks.
A boot parameter probably catches most cases yes.
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> that's a hard case but probably not the most interesting case; drivers > get loaded early thankfully. > (yes revoke is hard ;( )
Yeah .. I was hoping you'd write it ;) --
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RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Sun Oct 5, 6:01 pm)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Ingo Molnar
, (Sun Oct 5, 10:23 pm)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Sun Oct 5, 10:26 pm)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Alan Cox
, (Mon Oct 6, 2:27 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Maxim Levitsky
, (Mon Oct 6, 6:40 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Alan Cox
, (Mon Oct 6, 6:48 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon Oct 6, 6:52 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Alan Cox
, (Mon Oct 6, 7:01 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon Oct 6, 7:05 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Alan Cox
, (Mon Oct 6, 7:14 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon Oct 6, 7:24 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Alan Cox
, (Mon Oct 6, 7:38 am)
Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
, Arjan van de Ven
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Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /de ...
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