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authorGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>2020-11-24 15:28:02 -0500
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2021-01-21 16:16:08 +0000
commit8fe62e0c0e2efa5437f3ee81b65d69e70a45ecd2 (patch)
treebd1103f45277d1ead1165524501ad2e69c66ccf0 /security/keys
parent796e46f9e2cb2d823578044598ee8fe77f86e3f7 (diff)
watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue
The merged API doesn't use a watch_queue device, but instead relies on pipes, so let the documentation reflect that. Fixes: f7e47677e39a ("watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility") Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--security/keys/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/Kconfig b/security/keys/Kconfig
index 83bc23409164..c161642a8484 100644
--- a/security/keys/Kconfig
+++ b/security/keys/Kconfig
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ config KEY_NOTIFICATIONS
bool "Provide key/keyring change notifications"
depends on KEYS && WATCH_QUEUE
help
- This option provides support for getting change notifications on keys
- and keyrings on which the caller has View permission. This makes use
- of the /dev/watch_queue misc device to handle the notification
- buffer and provides KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY to enable/disable watches.
+ This option provides support for getting change notifications
+ on keys and keyrings on which the caller has View permission.
+ This makes use of pipes to handle the notification buffer and
+ provides KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY to enable/disable watches.