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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:32:46 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc.
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
CC: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Turn CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM in sysctl dev.mem.restricted
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> I assume /dev/crash is read only
> 
> but your series still makes absolutely no sense to me...
> really. Nak.
> 
> You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all.
> 

You could certainly envision this as a boottime option, or even a
*one-way* settable runtime option (kind of like the BSD securelevel
idea.)  The question is to which extent even that makes any sense.

	-hpa
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