From: Matt LaPlante <kernel@cyberdogtech.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change default for STRICT_DEVMEM
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:20:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081107172033.a8df8eed.kernel@cyberdogtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081107220038.50345845@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:00:38 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:18:36 -0600
> Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> wrote:
>
> > The recommendation for STRICT_DEVMEM is to select Y,
> > however the option currently defaults to N. Have the option
> > default to Y since it is recommended.
>
> The recommendation is extremely dubious as it breaks a lot of back
> compatibility.
>
Revert the default and toggle the recommendation then?
--
Matt LaPlante <kernel@cyberdogtech.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-07 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 20:18 [PATCH] Change default for STRICT_DEVMEM Matt LaPlante
2008-11-07 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-07 23:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-07 23:20 ` Matt LaPlante [this message]
2008-11-08 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar
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