Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

On Wed 31-03-21 17:08:03, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:

On 19.03.21 18:33, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

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On 2021-03-19 10:14:02 [-0700], Linus Torvalds wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:35 AM David Hildenbrand [off-list ref] wrote:

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Let's start a discussion if /dev/kmem is worth keeping around and
fixing/maintaining or if we should just remove it now for good.

I'll happily do this for the next merge window, but would really want
distros to confirm that they don't enable it.

I can confirm that it's certainly not enabled on any of the machines I
have, but..

Debian has CONFIG_DEVKMEM disabled since 2.6.31.

SLES, too. (but no idea since when exactly)

15-SP2 IIRC

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs