From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 14:34:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505213458.GA4331@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39558.1304630665@localhost>
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:24:25PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 13:32:05 +0200, Kay Sievers said:
>
> > In case CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is not set to "", which it
> > should be on every system
>
> If it indeed should be that on every system, shouldn't it be listed
> in feature-removal-schedule.txt?
It's the default value, but distros, and people, can and do override it
for various reasons. Why would it be added to
feature-removal-schedule.txt?
> Does anybody have a running list of "Stuff we set by default at one time, but
> no longer recommend"?
Look at the default values for different configurations options and why
they differ in your system is about the only way that I know of, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-05 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-05 11:32 [PATCH] reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 20:27 ` Greg KH
2011-05-06 1:15 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 21:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-05 21:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-06 0:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-06 1:07 ` Kay Sievers
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