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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, initramfs@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	yinghai@kernel.org, eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:25:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <505E8F44.9020208@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209230317.04050.trenn@suse.de>

> +config ACPI_INITRD_TABLE_OVERRIDE
> +       bool
> +       default y

Do distros in addition to SuSE concur they want to ship this way?

The last time we tried to make debugging easier we added
ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD, which allowed root to over-ride an AML method
on a running system.  Distro security-minded people were not amused.

thanks,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

ps I noticed your reference to acpidump in the README.
That reminded me to push it to the kernel source tree.
Its new home will be tools/power/acpi/


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-23  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-21 13:28 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 20:56   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-25 14:17     ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-22 15:16   ` Len Brown
2012-09-23  1:17     ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-23  4:25       ` Len Brown [this message]
2012-09-24  6:40         ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-24  9:21           ` Alan Cox
2012-09-25 15:25             ` [PATCH] ACPI: Only allow users with CAP_SYS_RAWIO rights to overwrite ACPI funcs at runtime Thomas Renninger
2012-09-24 18:26         ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Matthew Garrett
2012-09-24 20:27     ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-30  9:29 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30  9:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30  9:34   ` Thomas Renninger
2012-07-18 10:36 Early initrd file overwrite and ACPI table override making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-07-18 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger

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