Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: export 'pcibios_enabled'

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:29:55 +0000

> >  
> >  int pcibios_enabled;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcibios_enabled);
> >  
> >  /* According to the BIOS specification at:
> >   * http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/specs/bios21.pdf, we could
> 
> I would think this should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()... this seems like a
> symbol with a very high likelihood to be abused in strange ways.

We don't need to expose it anyway

uvesafb could look for any PCI vga class device - which I suspect is
what it *should* be doing ?

Alan