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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:21:13 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig:  Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:34:52PM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote:
> It would be useful to build kernels with disabled support of /dev/port
> for systems where we do not want to allow an administrator to access IO
> ports directly.
> 
> To do so however, CONFIG_DEVPORT needs to be user-selectable.  Give this
> configuration option a name and help description.
> 
> Google-Bug-Id: 3177114

What is that field?  It's not something that I've ever seen before...

Please don't push internal fields like this to public patches, it only
causes confusion...

greg k-h