Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750872AbWEVOiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 10:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750873AbWEVOiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 10:38:12 -0400 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:26831 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbWEVOiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 10:38:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add user taint flag From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alan Cox Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1148308548.17376.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1148307276.3902.71.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148308548.17376.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:37:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1148308674.3902.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 18 On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:35 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2006-05-22 at 16:14 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > we should then patch the /dev/mem driver or something to set this :) > > (well and possibly give it an exception for now for PCI space until the > > X people fix their stuff to use the proper sysfs stuff) > > /dev/mem is used for all sorts of sane things including DMIdecode. > Tainting on it isn't terribly useful. I meant taint-on-writable/write, dmi and others map it read only which is obviously different - 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/