module privlages

2001-01-12 Thread Jason Smethers
Has anyone put any thought into putting restrictions on what a module can modify when loaded into the kernel? If there is, say, ever binary third party driver support and this is provided without source some restrictions on what kernel data this module can link to and modify when loaded might be a

Re: module privlages

2001-01-13 Thread Jason Smethers
From: "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm not sure what the point of this would really be..nor how you could >enforce it. Perhaps you should submit a proof of concept ;-) > >Kris With more thought I suppose this would be a lot more effort than I had first thought, and a different out come fo

Re: API cleanup patch.

2001-02-03 Thread Jason Smethers
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have created a patch which goes a long way to clean up the the > usage of the API. The patch is generated automatically > and the objectfiles are identical if line numbers are preserved by > breaking style(9). > > You can find the script and the