From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261225AbVAAJvx (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:51:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262206AbVAAJvx (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:51:53 -0500 Received: from fyrebird.net ([217.70.144.192]:55715 "HELO fyrebird.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261225AbVAAJvw (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:51:52 -0500 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: lethalman@fyrebird.net via fyrebird X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.23 (Clear:RC:0(62.11.81.54):. Processed in 1.608019 secs) Message-ID: <41D66FE5.4040703@fyrebird.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:39:49 +0100 From: Lethalman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (sorry for my poor English) It's a nice idea and i think it shouldn't increase the kernel size too much ;) Talking about security, if a possible attacker could know about the bootloader type, he does nothing so this patch is not dangerous. Good luck! OT: a reply-to linux-kernel would be nice :/ (happy new year)