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On 3/31/20 12:27 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
...
> Patches 2+3 are only about handling the legacy boot params that have a sysctl
> counterpart.
> 

OK, I misread what those were for.


>> In fact, the sysctl_aliases[] is (or could be) effectively the whitelist that Luis Chamberlain
>> was requesting in another thread. A whitelist makes good sense, for the reasons Luis listed.
>> As such, keeping it limited to items that we want, seems like the way to go, IMHO.
> 
> See my reply there once I send it :)
> 

Saw that, and it all sounds good now.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA