Thanks for your reply. What I mean about nothing changes is when I check the status in settings>about phone after setting permissive mode with the selinux mode changer app and rebooting like it requests it still says enforceing. as to why I want to change it, I said before I am trying to get the touch interface to work on my pioneer appradio 3 head unit. I can mirror but touch doesn't work on the head unit. I have read in the appradio forum that you have to set SeLinux to permissive in order to accomplish this. I was hoping that some one with knowledge of custom kernels would be able to shed some light on this since it seems that Pac Man is set to enforcing by default. Also I have read that other kernels for other devices had the permissive mode set. I am so close to having this functionality it is getting frustrating, but I like the features that pac man brings to the table so I don't really want to switch. at this point.