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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:58:46 +0000
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt remove
 capability.disable

Quoting Josh Boyer (jwboyer@...hat.com):
> 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>

Thanks!

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.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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