On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > While NFS is widely used in data centres, and private > networks it's quite a nuanced usecase for device firmware. > A lot of devices already disable it. > > Various network protocols should really be opt in, not opt > out, because they add extra size and are potential attack > vectors from a security PoV. In the NFS case it doesn't > really make sense for a lot of devices like tables, SBCs etc. > It's also something we don't really want for SystemReady-IR > due to security concerns. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > --- > > This is a RFC to start a discussion around things like NFS, > with the addistion of old protocols like NFSv1 that were never > publicly released [1] we really shouldn't be enabling this by > default. > > I am aware it will likely break the functionality for users > that do use the various versions of NFS but it's straight forward > to add CMD_NFS as an explicit config. It's for this reason I > label the patch as RFC. > > There was about a 5Kb saving here when I tested a build with > pinebook-pro-rk3399. > > Peter > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System [snip]
This is probably fine, honestly. I don't see any environments that default to making use of NFS within U-Boot (which is not the same as nfsroot for Linux, which a number of platforms have options for by default). -- Tom
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