Re: [PATCH] zr36067: Debugging cleanups (updated again)

Hi Ronald,

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:42 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On May 24, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Trent Piepho wrote:
> [... lock_norm ...]
> >> (As a side note, I'm curious as to why this module parameter  
> >> exists in
> >> the first place, it doesn't seem particularly useful, and it gives
> >> users an easy way to fill the kernel log buffer when used. I couldn't
> >> find any other media/video driver offering such a parameter.)
> >
> > My guess is it's a hack for badly written software.
> 
> Feature from the original driver. Serguei Miridonov's site explains  
> use cases. It's security-related, for sysadmins that want to limit  
> norm changing.

Can you please point me to this site? Google didn't help. I just can't
see how this is related to security. A sysadmin who really cares would
probably never give the users write permissions to /dev/video0 to start
with.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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