On Thursday, July 9, 2020 12:26:27 AM MST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:17:53PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 10:04:01 AM MST Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 16:48, John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > needlessly disables a lot of kernel functionality > > > > > > > > > > > > It disables functionality which can destroy platform security. > > > > > > It disables functionality that users need, such as inserting their kernel > > > > modules on their own system, or hibernating to disk. Let's be honest about > > what this does. This is not something that's beneficial here, it's only > > harming our users. > > > Some users, not all users. Beware of making sweeping generalizations. > > I've used Fedora since Fedora Core 5 across countless machines and never > cared about inserting custom kernel modules. Hibernating to disk is not > something I've used on my laptops in probably 10 years either, as suspend > to ram is generally sufficient. Again just my personal experiance. > > There's always a tradeoff and it is likely to be different depending on > each users needs. While SecureBoot will disable some functionality it is > not unreasonable to think it is a net win out of the box for a potentially > quite large portion of Fedora's userbase. > > Regards, > Daniel
Please keep in mind that it disables that functionality only because of 'lockdown' patches applied to the Fedora kernel, it's not a normal part of the Linux kernel when running under Secure Boot. I have no idea why the decision to hurt users was explicitly made here, it doesn't make a lot of sense. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
