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From: josh@joshtriplett.org
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	frowand.list@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:42:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141001224228.GA30343@cloud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUK07j8+iQ8oSW70sgePxg_GJY3ASBBS+U9fvp_f2Rz5w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:13:14AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:05 AM,  <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:53:56PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> I significantly prefer default N.  Scripts that play with init= really
> >> don't want the fallback, and I can imagine contexts in which it could
> >> be a security problem.
> >
> > While I certainly would prefer the non-fallback behavior for init as
> > well, standard kernel practice has typically been to use "default y" for
> > previously built-in features that become configurable.  And I'd
> > certainly prefer a compile-time configuration option like this (even
> > with default y) over a "strictinit" kernel command-line option.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> So: "default y" for a release or two, then switch the default?

Default y for a few releases, get it on the radar of various
distributions so they make an explicit decision about it, then consider
changing the upstream default.

- Josh Triplett

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29  2:40 [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-30 12:12 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-01  0:41 ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-01  0:58   ` Rob Landley
2014-10-01  1:52     ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-01  3:16       ` Rob Landley
2014-10-01  4:53         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-01 18:05           ` josh
2014-10-01 18:13             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-01 22:42               ` josh [this message]
2014-10-14 21:00               ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-14 21:21                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  5:46                   ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-15  5:56                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  6:37                       ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-15 15:18                 ` Rob Landley
2014-10-20 20:14                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 21:01                   ` Josh Triplett
2014-10-20 21:28                     ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 21:34                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 21:41                         ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 21:42                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 21:44                             ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 22:04                               ` [PATCH] init: Remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 22:06                                 ` josh
2014-10-21  3:45                                 ` Rob Landley
2014-10-21  4:02                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-21  4:15                                     ` Rob Landley
2014-10-21  9:53                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-10-21 10:05                                   ` Josh Triplett
2014-10-14  0:47 ` [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails Rusty Russell

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