Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:09:01 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
       crash-utility@redhat.com, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Remove CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
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> -#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
> -
>  int devmem_restricted = 1;
>  
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) && defined(CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
>  	/*
>  	 * since there is no unload function, we don't have to deregister that
>  	 * the whole lifetime of the kernel and can ignore the return value

NAK - this adds a pile of memory wasting complete crap to every kernel
including embedded systems. At least before you could turn it off now you
can't.
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