On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:56:14PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > *Today*, Linux is a challenging choice for a tiny embedded system. > > We're trying to fix that. > > Can you please more specific about the embedded systems exactly you're > talking about? > > I find this patch rather controversial as it removes a lot of security. > Embedded systems *are* a target for all kind of attacks. > Misguided embedded engineers will abuse this feature and produce even more > weak targets.
Without this patch, those same engineers would simply run everything as root. "Make a foolproof system, and they will invent a better fool". ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/