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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:55:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124235551.GA24596@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326729981-6605-1-git-send-email-ludwig.nussel@suse.de>

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Cautious admins may want to restrict access to debugfs. Currently a
> manual chown/chmod e.g. in an init script is needed to achieve that.
> Distributions that want to make the mount options configurable need
> to add extra config files. By allowing to set the root inode's uid,
> gid and mode via mount options no such hacks are needed anymore.
> Instead configuration becomes straight forward via fstab.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>

I've applied this now, but shouldn't it also be documented somewhere as
well?  Please send a follow-on patch doing that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 16:06 [PATCH] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options Ludwig Nussel
2012-01-24 23:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-24 23:57 ` Greg KH
2012-01-25 10:52   ` Ludwig Nussel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-14 13:39 Ludwig Nussel

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