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Re: Security: auto-loading protocol modules



On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 15:16 +0000, Christine Caulfield wrote:
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> The Debian DECnet package already modprobes the decnet module in the
> init script (it avoids some potential auto-loading race conditions), so
> disabling auto-load will be fine.

Thanks for your quick response.  I've made this change for the next
upload to sid.

> For info, the kernel module is unmaintained upstream - I orphaned it
> some time ago as I have neither the time nor expertise to handle it (and
> never did, to be quite honest).

Oh yes, I was looking at the MAINTAINERS file from 2.6.32 and not the
latest version.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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