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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 00:26:59 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 00:28:57 +0200
commit64d206d896ff70b828138577d5ff39deda5f1c4d (patch)
treec73a42f38a22c00d9bc3a9a558770cbbea79877c /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
parent2567d71cc7acd99f0a0dd02e17fe17fd7df7b30c (diff)
downloadlinux-64d206d896ff70b828138577d5ff39deda5f1c4d.tar.bz2
x86: rename CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM to CONFIG_PROMISC_DEVMEM
Linus observed: > The real bug is that we shouldn't have "double negatives", and > certainly not negative config options. Making that "promiscuous > /dev/mem" option a negated thing as a config option was bad. right ... lets rename this option. There should never be a negation in config options. [ that reminds me of CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER, but that is for another commit ;-) ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.debug7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index ae36bfa814e5..f0cf5d990794 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
-config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
- bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
+config PROMISC_DEVMEM
+ bool "Allow unlimited access to /dev/mem"
+ default y
help
- If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all
+ If this option is left on, you allow userspace (root) access to all
of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
be used by people debugging the kernel.