Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:13:14 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails |
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:05 AM, <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:53:56PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> I significantly prefer default N. Scripts that play with init= really >> don't want the fallback, and I can imagine contexts in which it could >> be a security problem. > > While I certainly would prefer the non-fallback behavior for init as > well, standard kernel practice has typically been to use "default y" for > previously built-in features that become configurable. And I'd > certainly prefer a compile-time configuration option like this (even > with default y) over a "strictinit" kernel command-line option. >
Fair enough.
So: "default y" for a release or two, then switch the default? Having default y will annoy virtme, though it's not the end of the world. Virtme is intended to work with more-or-less-normal kernels.
--Andy
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