Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Waychison <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:17:24 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT |
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:34:52PM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: >> It would be useful to build kernels with disabled support of /dev/port >> for systems where we do not want to allow an administrator to access IO >> ports directly. >> >> To do so however, CONFIG_DEVPORT needs to be user-selectable. Give this >> configuration option a name and help description. >> >> Google-Bug-Id: 3177114 > > What is that field? It's not something that I've ever seen before...
This is for our internal reference.
> > Please don't push internal fields like this to public patches, it only > causes confusion...
It hasn't caused any problems so far. It helps us track things as we pull code back downstream. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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