Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751392AbXASQ5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:57:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751619AbXASQ5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:57:31 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60073 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905AbXASQ5a (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:57:30 -0500 Subject: Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem From: Arjan van de Ven To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Nadia Derbey , Franck Bui-Huu , Andi Kleen , LKML In-Reply-To: References: <45AFA490.5000508@bull.net> <45B08B17.3060807@bull.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:57:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1169225824.3055.507.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 18 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... -- 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 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/