linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100826230231.GA12060@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:02:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@....net>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-embedded <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:24:44PM +0200, Samo Pogacnik wrote:
> On 25.08.2010 (sre) at 11:16 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:14:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > > That's one extra process, not that much, right?
> > > > > 
> > > > > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust.
> > > > 
> > > > Fair enough.  So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros
> > > > to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd?
> > > 
> > > Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on.
> > > Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded.
> > 
> > So should this be dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED then?
> > 
> 
> Should i resend the patch with CONFIG_EMBEDDED dependency enabled? I do
> not have any real objections to that, except that the driver operates
> the same way regardless of the (non-)embedded configuration.

No, I can change it when I apply the patch next week (sorry, swamped at
the moment.)

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/