Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:09:05 -0400
In message <19990612211802.A28762@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
writes:
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| On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:09:27PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
| > > yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
| > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
| > > > > I would really like
| > > > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k.
| > > > Why?
| > > Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries.
| > > Arguably by negligable amounts.
| > Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to
|
| So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or
| run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can
| now do less damage?
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If they can run insmod or trash module objects, they can replace the kernel
and run lilo, then force a reboot. I see no security improvement, and it's
not *that* much harder.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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