Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

[Hugh Dickins]

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?
And be kept as a CONFIG_ option under DEBUG_KERNEL thereafter?

Hugh
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