On Wed, 30 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I'd rather leave it as is in case someone wants to squeeze last bit of
> memory savings from the kernel.
Yup, that's why I left CONFIG_HID_DEBUG still in place to let users that
care that much to turn in off.
> Also there some security issues (someone breaking into the box and
> enabling i8042 debug and capturing all keycodes) so uber-sensitive folks
> can use it to disable debug completely.
Well this doesn't seem to an issue at all to me - if someone breaks into
the box, he has dozens of other possibilities how to capture the
keystrokes than enabling i8042 debug.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
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