On December 4, 2015 2:48:37 PM PST, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 02:35:38PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> How about this: it is easy too easy to hard code MSR accesses, and >the >> last things we need is alien non-GPL drivers doing their own >low-level >> hacks bypassing these facilities. > >Yeah, that doesn't stop alien, non-GPL drivers from doing > > asm("rdmsr ..) > >Hell, they can even do naked byte opcodes " ...0f 32... " > >But I see your point, thanks!
Yes, we can't keep them from being stupid, and they clearly are being so in the first place, but we can at least make it a bit easier to not be. Since it is so easy to do that dumb thing let's not make it harder. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
