linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Disable procfs debugging by default

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:52:49 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Disable procfs debugging by default

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:48:42PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> at 15:55, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 05:25:22PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > > The procfs provides many useful information for debugging, but it may be
> > > too much for normal usage, routines like proc_get_sec_info() reports
> > > various security related information.
> > > 
> > > So disable it by defaultl.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/autoconf.h | 4 ----
> > >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/autoconf.h
> > > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/autoconf.h
> > > index 196aca3aed7b..8f4c1e734473 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/autoconf.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/autoconf.h
> > > @@ -57,9 +57,5 @@
> > >  #define DBG	0	/*  for ODM & BTCOEX debug */
> > >  #endif /*  !DEBUG */
> > > 
> > > -#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > > -#define PROC_DEBUG
> > > -#endif
> > 
> > What?  Why?  If you are going to do this, then rip out all of the code
> > as well.
> 
> Or make it a Kconfig option? Which one do you think is better?

No new config options please.

> > And are you _sure_ you want to do this?
> 
> Yes. The procfs of rtl8723bs is useful to Realtek to decode but not to
> others.

If no one else needs this, then rip out all of the code that uses it,
not just the single #define.

thanks,

greg k-h