> Set a taint flag,
That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards.
> print a loud message
Neither.
You'll just end up with "Linux destroyed my laptop" headlines all
over the internet and rightfully very annoyed users.
> Or have you forgotten the original Unix
> philosophy too ?
The philosophy didn't include physically destroying hardware
as far as I know.
> > > Here we had obviously-useful-to-you functionality which was taken away
> > > without, afaik, providing any alternative.
> >
> > I don't think it's that unreasonable to require source code modifications
> > for anything that can kill hardware.
>
> As root you can erase the bios,
We don't ship the devbios driver for good reasons.
> lock the hard disk with a random
> password, reflash your video card ....
That all requires significant effort and custom software. It's not that we
have a one liner echo destroy > /sys/.../flash-bios.
-Andi
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