On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:55:11 -0400 Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a > given machine, and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to > be manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the > kernel. Add a capability check to prevent that. This is true of any firmware method on any device Why pick on ASUS. Have you run this through ASUS and discussed it with them. It seems highly inappropriate to cripple a specific vendors feature set without discussion and an Ack from the vendor concerned. Alan -- 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/
