On Fri, 28 May 2010 14:50:59 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:14:06PM +0530, Ds, Sreedhara wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] Remove indirect read write api support. > > Firmware nolonger support these api, security issue > > What security issues? It's just stuff that is gone, didn't work out internally. No driver will use those methods, no public firmware will support them. Dead code might be a better description. It's not security in a Linux sense. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html