Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:10:20 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
        "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

[..]
> How can anyone use /dev/oldmem correctly?  To the best of
> my knowledge there are no parsers of the ELF header passed
> by /sbin/kexec in userspace.
> 
> If there is anyone who cares they can complain and we can
> revert the removal. All of the evidence is that everyone uses
> /proc/vmcore.
> 

Ok, that's fine. Given the fact that none of us has ever encountered
/dev/oldmem user, it is reasonably safe to remove it.

Thanks
Vivek
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