Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:29:14 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 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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