Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754155AbXE3Oah (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 10:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751925AbXE3Oaa (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 10:30:30 -0400 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:38801 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751449AbXE3Oa3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 10:30:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:30:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Dmitry Torokhov cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: i8042 - cleanup of debug code (was Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070523004233.5ae5f6fd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179962229.8575.4.camel@localhost> <200705232328.42657.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 25 On Wed, 30 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I'd rather leave it as is in case someone wants to squeeze last bit of > memory savings from the kernel. Yup, that's why I left CONFIG_HID_DEBUG still in place to let users that care that much to turn in off. > Also there some security issues (someone breaking into the box and > enabling i8042 debug and capturing all keycodes) so uber-sensitive folks > can use it to disable debug completely. Well this doesn't seem to an issue at all to me - if someone breaks into the box, he has dozens of other possibilities how to capture the keystrokes than enabling i8042 debug. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina - 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/