Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem |
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> > 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.
> > For the non share-resource-with case what occurs if /dev/mem is active > when the driver is loaded ?
that's a hard case but probably not the most interesting case; drivers get loaded early thankfully. (yes revoke is hard ;( )
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