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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use request_module_cap() to load 'netdev-%s' modules
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> wrote:
> This uses the new request_module_cap() facility to directly propagate
> CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and the 'netdev' module prefix to the
> capability subsystem as it was suggested.

This is the kind of complexity that I wonder if it's worth it at all.

Nobody sane actually uses those stupid capability bits. Have you ever
actually seen it used in real life?

They were a mistake, and we should never have done them - another case
of security people who think that complexity == security, when in
reality nobody actually wants the complexity or is willing to set it
up and manage it.

Linus

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