Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759844AbZDQQhj (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757031AbZDQQhb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:31 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:47200 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756154AbZDQQhb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:31 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: Robert Nicholson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set? References: <20090417102949.6c2b663a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090417102949.6c2b663a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (Alan Cox's message of "Fri\, 17 Apr 2009 10\:29\:49 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 16 Alan Cox writes: >> it, like OSX have protective measures to stop abuse of those features. > > The kernel doesn't but your BIOS or in some distributions early boot > scripts may well issue a security freeze. A hot-plugged disk should not be affected then. Not very safe with IDE/PATA, at least in theory. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/