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| author | Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br> | 2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300 |
| commit | 1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (patch) | |
| tree | df6b1a190760f51465122ca4c13492d5ac5984c6 /drivers/tty/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0a8ab17689e628c84a666195bfc6ab85d11cf057 (diff) | |
| parent | 2ae782ca839e0ee07de37122ddea362adff2e975 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #76 from toradex/4.9-2.3.x-imx
4.9 2.3.x imx
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/Kconfig | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/Kconfig index 95103054c0e4..fdd2860cb9bd 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig @@ -455,4 +455,27 @@ config MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_KGDB_CHAN help FDC channel number to use for KGDB. +config LDISC_AUTOLOAD + bool "Automatically load TTY Line Disciplines" + default y + help + Historically the kernel has always automatically loaded any + line discipline that is in a kernel module when a user asks + for it to be loaded with the TIOCSETD ioctl, or through other + means. This is not always the best thing to do on systems + where you know you will not be using some of the more + "ancient" line disciplines, so prevent the kernel from doing + this unless the request is coming from a process with the + CAP_SYS_MODULE permissions. + + Say 'Y' here if you trust your userspace users to do the right + thing, or if you have only provided the line disciplines that + you know you will be using, or if you wish to continue to use + the traditional method of on-demand loading of these modules + by any user. + + This functionality can be changed at runtime with the + dev.tty.ldisc_autoload sysctl, this configuration option will + only set the default value of this functionality. + endif # TTY |