linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Allow disabling of CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20110714212113.GA28639@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:21:13 +0200
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig:  Allow disabling of CONFIG_DEVPORT

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:34:52PM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote:
> It would be useful to build kernels with disabled support of /dev/port
> for systems where we do not want to allow an administrator to access IO
> ports directly.
> 
> To do so however, CONFIG_DEVPORT needs to be user-selectable.  Give this
> configuration option a name and help description.
> 
> Google-Bug-Id: 3177114

What is that field?  It's not something that I've ever seen before...

Please don't push internal fields like this to public patches, it only
causes confusion...

greg k-h
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