From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750706AbVHLRIH (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:08:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750729AbVHLRIH (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:08:07 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:10943 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750706AbVHLRIG (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:08:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:07:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain Reply-To: rostedt@goodmis.org To: Dave Jones cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mmap_kmem (was: [question] What's the difference between /dev/kmem and /dev/mem) In-Reply-To: <20050812165657.GC13749@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1123796188.17269.127.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1123809302.17269.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050812165657.GC13749@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > The above patches were in -mm for a while, though they didn't > have a config option, they just 'did it', and some of the > changes were a bit unclean, but I can polish that up if you're > interested. Again, I'm asking to have it turned into a config option. Even default to off. I understand that /dev/kmem shouldn't be in a production machine. There's no reason for it. But it is nice to have when debugging the kernel. I'll make the changes if need be, to make this into a config option (placed in the kernel debug section). I'll even maintain it to keep it working. But I don't want yet another thing I need to write myself for debugging the kernel. Thanks, -- Steve