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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 00:26:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 00:28:57 +0200 |
| commit | 64d206d896ff70b828138577d5ff39deda5f1c4d (patch) | |
| tree | c73a42f38a22c00d9bc3a9a558770cbbea79877c /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion (diff) | |
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x86: rename CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM to CONFIG_PROMISC_DEVMEM
Linus observed:
> The real bug is that we shouldn't have "double negatives", and
> certainly not negative config options. Making that "promiscuous
> /dev/mem" option a negated thing as a config option was bad.
right ... lets rename this option. There should never be a negation
in config options.
[ that reminds me of CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER, but that
is for another commit ;-) ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index ae36bfa814e5..f0cf5d990794 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT source "lib/Kconfig.debug" -config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM - bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" +config PROMISC_DEVMEM + bool "Allow unlimited access to /dev/mem" + default y help - If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all + If this option is left on, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can be used by people debugging the kernel. |