I thought the main user was Samba and/or otherwise providing file service for M$ systems? On August 20, 2021 9:30:31 AM PDT, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:15:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:39 AM Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > I'm all for ripping it out too. It's an insane interface anyway. >> > >> > I've not heard a single complaint about this being turned off in >> > fedora/rhel or any other distro that has this disabled. >> >> I'd love to remove it, we could absolutely test it. The fact that >> several major distros have it disabled makes me think it's fine. > >FWIW, it is now disabled in Ubuntu too: > >https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/impish/commit/?h=master-next&id=f3aac5e47789cbeb3177a14d3d2a06575249e14b > >> But as always, it would be good to check Android. > >It looks like it's enabled (checking the Pixel 4 kernel image), but it's >not specifically mentioned in any of the build configs that are used to >construct the image, so I think this is just catching the "default y". I >expect it'd be fine to turn this off. > >I will ask around to see if it's actually used. > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
