From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753226AbbJMRz2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:55:28 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:57084 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752422AbbJMRz1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:55:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:55:19 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Anatol Pomozov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20151013175519.GL14956@sirena.org.uk> References: <1444758415-5190-1-git-send-email-anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m0XfRaZG5aslkcJX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1444758415-5190-1-git-send-email-anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> X-Cookie: Do you like "TENDER VITTLES"? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a01:348:6:808::2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: Add a config option for making regmap debugfs writable X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --m0XfRaZG5aslkcJX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:46:55AM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Instead of modifiying source code directly one should use config files. > It is the standard way to set compile-time options. This is deliberately not a Kconfig option because it is a terrible idea to do this in production and making it either selectable or the default is an invitation to abuse. We want to place a barrier here so that users know that this is something that they have taken a decision to enable, not something that is in any way supported (this is also why we taint the kernel when people do write). --m0XfRaZG5aslkcJX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWHUWGAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQ1UUH/3/VoweoZ/hj4SeHT5tzOg2v 6u8MnaD/Wdd8dd8WxJnfIQ6zMl3rSSvn1aryZJHlAyZ92VDnJYGv7/9klaJajY1j Ainoda+vv/RjaFyyf6A8tMt2dhiHZffZpcVXYAUMkcAz/RDWt+lI7fSOhy4gYzWB h2CJlYanZKQAV3pYQjXOUO2SCGliQFNAtcPvSTSd36KYkyxFIkZWpGuC6WPvJaNU LRAPaNb0TM3/JJFSnJakVnD75mtSGl9P1EuEC5bGaSSvSbUPSxn5r3hCfuPUYAox jW+OqJRPMzLGdll2BJcPaEtorn4+UUrk45uB05wbHPp4vyP7hYGBYSAbkjMq4H4= =w9u5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m0XfRaZG5aslkcJX--