linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt remove capability.disable

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Message-ID: <20120626013402.GC9997@zod.bos.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:34:03 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt remove
 capability.disable

Remove the documentation for capability.disable.  The code supporting this
parameter was removed with:

	commit 5915eb53861c5776cfec33ca4fcc1fd20d66dd27
	Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
	Date:   Thu Jul 3 20:56:05 2008 +0200

    	security: remove dummy module

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a92c5eb..9415bcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -446,12 +446,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
 			This option provides an override for these situations.
 
-	capability.disable=
-			[SECURITY] Disable capabilities.  This would normally
-			be used only if an alternative security model is to be
-			configured.  Potentially dangerous and should only be
-			used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
-
 	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
 			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
 
-- 
1.7.10.2

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