linux-kernel - Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem

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Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:57:38 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem

> 
> For debug tools that would be almost all drivers, and for distribution
> use that needs to be a runtime selection.

is boottime (read: kernel parameter) ok ?
it would totally make sense to have a kernel boot parameter that
disables all /dev/mem sanity checks.

> 
> For the non share-resource-with case what occurs if /dev/mem is active
> when the driver is loaded ?

that's a hard case but probably not the most interesting case; drivers
get loaded early thankfully.
(yes revoke is hard ;( )



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