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Commit 16104b55 authored by Stefan Richter's avatar Stefan Richter Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help text



Here is an attempt to translate the prompt and help text into something
which is legible and, as a bonus, correct.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 609a70ac
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@@ -6,15 +6,19 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
source "lib/Kconfig.debug"

config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
	bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem"
	bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
	help
	  The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
	  space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
	  dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
	  option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
	  kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
	  obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
	  debugging the kernel.
	  If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all
	  of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
	  access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
	  be used by people debugging the kernel.

	  If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
	  userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
	  This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
	  /dev/mem.

	  If in doubt, say Y.

config EARLY_PRINTK
	bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED