Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934540Ab3E1PMP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 11:12:15 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51492 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934492Ab3E1PMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 11:12:14 -0400 Message-ID: <51A4C926.2040701@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:11:34 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Goyal CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Zhang Yanfei , Andrew Morton , Simon Horman , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface References: <51A02E50.5020507@gmail.com> <87mwri8wwu.fsf@xmission.com> <20130528143756.GD7088@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130528143756.GD7088@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 23 On 05/28/2013 07:37 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Eric, > > Should we schedule the removal of this interface after 1-2 releases > and give a warning once if anybody opens /dev/oldmem and tell them > to use /proc/vmcore instead? > > I am kind of inclined towards warning approarch. If there is any xyz > /dev/oldmem user in the wild out there, he/she atleast gets a chance to > migrate to /proc/vmcore. > This has been discussed ad nauseam at the Kernel Summit. It doesn't work. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/