> Set a taint flag, That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards.
> print a loud message Neither. You'll just end up with "Linux destroyed my laptop" headlines all over the internet and rightfully very annoyed users. > Or have you forgotten the original Unix > philosophy too ? The philosophy didn't include physically destroying hardware as far as I know. > > > Here we had obviously-useful-to-you functionality which was taken away > > > without, afaik, providing any alternative. > > > > I don't think it's that unreasonable to require source code modifications > > for anything that can kill hardware. > > As root you can erase the bios, We don't ship the devbios driver for good reasons. > lock the hard disk with a random > password, reflash your video card .... That all requires significant effort and custom software. It's not that we have a one liner echo destroy > /sys/.../flash-bios. -Andi - 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/
