Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 17:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Does anybody actually _use_ /proc/kcore? It was one of those "cool 
> feature" things, but I certainly haven't ever used it myself except for 
> testing, and it's historically often been broken after various kernel 
> infrastructure updates, and people haven't complained..
> 
> Comments?

Now if you'd agree to merge the kgdb stubs to replace it.... ;)

I see no problem with it either going or becoming an arch specific
module someone can go write if they care about it and insmod if they
actually use.


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