> That reminds me, there have been suggestions in the past that we should > do a security freeze after probing and configuring. And as has been observed previously from a security perspective there is no point. Break into box security freeze - annoying Patch boot block to load my disk destroyer Reboot You need to the security freeze in the firmware at boot, or it is the same whether you do it in kernel or in the initrd or early boot, except that its pagable code, its configurable and its easier to work with when it is in user space. Paranoid people get PCI boot roms that lock their disks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
