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x86: Fix help message for STRICT_DEVMEM config option
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The message talked about "left on" when it meant to say disabled.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds committed Jul 21, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
config STRICT_DEVMEM
bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
help
If this option is left on, you allow userspace (root) access to all
If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
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