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

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Message-ID: <20121218172500.GC19265@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:25:01 -0500
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] 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

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
---

 Resend: I sent this back in June.  It didn't stick: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/25/538

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index ddd84d6..363e348 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.
 
-- 
1.8.0.1

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