Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964973AbbD0Rv3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:51:29 -0400 Received: from li42-95.members.linode.com ([209.123.162.95]:36498 "EHLO li42-95.members.linode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932203AbbD0Rv0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:51:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: ABI: /sys/firmware/devicetree/overlays Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2098\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: Pantelis Antoniou In-Reply-To: <20150424203121.GB14970@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:51:20 +0300 Cc: Rob Herring , Grant Likely , Andrew Morton , Matt Porter , Koen Kooi , Guenter Roeck , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <1429868744-19863-1-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <1429868744-19863-5-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <20150424203121.GB14970@kroah.com> To: Greg KH X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2098) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1881 Lines: 57 Hi Greg, > On Apr 24, 2015, at 23:31 , Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:45:44PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> Documentation ABI entry for overlays sysfs entries. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou >> --- >> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-devicetree-overlays | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) >> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-devicetree-overlays >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-devicetree-overlays b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-devicetree-overlays >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..6b81f1c >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-devicetree-overlays >> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ >> +What: /sys/firmware/devicetree/overlays/ >> +Date: March 2015 >> +Contact: Pantelis Antoniou >> +Description: >> + This directory contains the applied device tree overlays of >> + the running system, as directories of the overlay id. > > "as"? > >> + >> + enable: The master enable switch, by default is 1, and when >> + set to 0 it cannot be re-enabled for security reasons. > > What are those reasons? > There’s a whole subthread with Grant & Kees going over security concerns. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/101871 > thanks, > > greg k-h Regards — Pantelis > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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/