linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:55:51 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Cautious admins may want to restrict access to debugfs. Currently a
> manual chown/chmod e.g. in an init script is needed to achieve that.
> Distributions that want to make the mount options configurable need
> to add extra config files. By allowing to set the root inode's uid,
> gid and mode via mount options no such hacks are needed anymore.
> Instead configuration becomes straight forward via fstab.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>

I've applied this now, but shouldn't it also be documented somewhere as
well?  Please send a follow-on patch doing that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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