On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 17:12 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:33 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > Though I do wonder whether > > > it was safe to change its behaviour at that stage: more evidence that > > > few have actually been using mmap of /dev/kmem. > > > > ... and maybe we should just kill /dev/kmem entirely... it seems mostly > > used by rootkits but very few other things, if any at all... > > It was discourteous of me not to CC you: I thought you might say that ;) > Though so long as /dev/mem support remains, /dev/kmem might as well?
they're not the same; for a long time, /dev/mem on actual memory returned zeros... so you couldn't use it for rootkits ;) (that got "fixed" a while ago) > And be kept as a CONFIG_ option under DEBUG_KERNEL thereafter? config option is fine I suppose... I assume distros will be smart enough to turn it off ;) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
