Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:12:59 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure |
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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
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