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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:17:24 -0700
From:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
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 2:21 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> 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...

This is for our internal reference.

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

It hasn't caused any problems so far.  It helps us track things as we
pull code back downstream.
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