Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753387AbaJASNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:13:38 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f51.google.com ([209.85.215.51]:38377 "EHLO mail-la0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751780AbaJASNg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:13:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141001180510.GA28540@cloud> References: <5c6381879bea68aebb13530442f1cf8a052be97f.1411958379.git.luto@amacapital.net> <542B4DA3.5080105@gmail.com> <542B519B.6010001@landley.net> <542B5E44.40303@gmail.com> <542B7200.6030902@landley.net> <20141001180510.GA28540@cloud> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:13:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails To: Josh Triplett Cc: Rob Landley , frowand.list@gmail.com, Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Chuck Ebbert , Randy Dunlap , Shuah Khan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:05 AM, 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/