Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964920AbXASWBO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:01:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964932AbXASWBO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:01:14 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:54133 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964920AbXASWBN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:01:13 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:57:55 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Nadia Derbey , Franck Bui-Huu , LKML References: <45AFA490.5000508@bull.net> <45B08B17.3060807@bull.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701200857.55407.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 457 Lines: 12 > But personally I'd prefer it to remain. Similar. I also got some tools who use it to read kernel variables and doing the V->P conversion in user space would be tedious and unreliable (e.g. for vmalloc) -Andi - 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/