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From: crispin@iinet.net.au
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:13:05 +0800
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>,
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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
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In-Reply-To: <200201151045.g0FAjduU002847@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de>; from brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:45:39AM +0100
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:45:39AM +0100, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > > 1. security, if you don't need any modules you can disable modules
> > > > entirly and then it's impossible to add a module without patching
> > > > the kernel first (the module load system calls aren't there)
> 
> > > Urban legend.
> 
> > If this is the case then why do I get systemcall undefined error messages
> > when I make a mistake and attempt to load a module on a kernel without
> > modules enabled?
> 
> AFAIU the security improvement of no-modules are way overrated.

insmod knark.o

Crispin
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