Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux...

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / drivers / acpi / Kconfig

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index bc2218db5ba9b2661e1f0f1261be48a354973efb..de0e3df767762220a670aa640c47029ba72603ff 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -369,6 +369,21 @@ config ACPI_HED
          which is used to report some hardware errors notified via
          SCI, mainly the corrected errors.
 
+config ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD
+       tristate "Allow ACPI methods to be inserted/replaced at run time"
+       depends on DEBUG_FS
+       default n
+       help
+         This debug facility allows ACPI AML methods to me inserted and/or
+         replaced without rebooting the system. For details refer to:
+         Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt.
+
+         NOTE: This option is security sensitive, because it allows arbitrary
+         kernel memory to be written to by root (uid=0) users, allowing them
+         to bypass certain security measures (e.g. if root is not allowed to
+         load additional kernel modules after boot, this feature may be used
+         to override that restriction).
+
 source "drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig"
 
 endif  # ACPI