On 24.03.21 20:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
We do tend to think about distros. I bet there are a number of weird
embedded type systems using /dev/kmem - it's amazing what sorts of
hacks those people will put up with the get something out the door.
There certainly are (seen lots of such crap), ano
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:58:12AM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:24:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Let's remove /dev/kmem, which is unused and obsolete.
> >
> > I grabbed these. Silently - the cc list is amazing ;)
> >
> > I was wondering if it would be bet
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:24:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > Let's remove /dev/kmem, which is unused and obsolete.
>
> I grabbed these. Silently - the cc list is amazing ;)
Thanks, I was going to do so, but your tree is fine with me:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:24:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > Let's remove /dev/kmem, which is unused and obsolete.
>
> I grabbed these. Silently - the cc list is amazing ;)
>
> I was wondering if it would be better to permanently disable /dev/kmem
> in Kconfig along with a comment "if y
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
for the series.
Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
> Let's remove /dev/kmem, which is unused and obsolete.
I grabbed these. Silently - the cc list is amazing ;)
I was wondering if it would be better to permanently disable /dev/kmem
in Kconfig along with a comment "if you really want this thing then
email peeps@places with a very good reason wh
Let's remove /dev/kmem, which is unused and obsolete. Description from
patch #1:
"
Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existance of /dev/kmem.
Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to b
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