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authorMax Bires <jbires@google.com>2017-01-03 08:18:07 -0800
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2017-06-20 14:04:45 +0200
commitc0dd8fff25130e93d2a7c0bfe2bca2d4db60fe89 (patch)
tree799ac67fed51c559dfcef0405185f4eab328d272 /drivers
parent3fa1aeb6d3bb3776ab57ae798be5c289b790b955 (diff)
char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always on
commit f2cfa58b136e4b06a9b9db7af5ef62fbb5992f62 upstream. Without a bool string present, using "# CONFIG_DEVPORT is not set" in defconfig files would not actually unset devport. This esnured that /dev/port was always on, but there are reasons a user may wish to disable it (smaller kernel, attack surface reduction) if it's not being used. Adding a message here in order to make this user visible. Signed-off-by: Max Bires <jbires@google.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 30878924e65b..8ccb96ae3fd9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -579,9 +579,12 @@ config TELCLOCK
controlling the behavior of this hardware.
config DEVPORT
- bool
+ bool "/dev/port character device"
depends on ISA || PCI
default y
+ help
+ Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port
+ device is similar to /dev/mem, but for I/O ports.
source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig"