From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:32:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030814173249.C332@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308140917350.8148-100000@home.osdl.org>; from torvalds@osdl.org on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:19:17AM -0700
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:19:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > After reviewing the /proc/kcore and kclist issues, I've decided that I'm
> > no longer prepared to even _think_ about supporting /proc/kcore on ARM -
>
> I suspect we should just remove it altogether.
>
> 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..
I was thinking afterwards about a patch to allow /proc/kcore to be
entirely disabled and dropped out of the kernel - we already select
between a.out and ELF.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-14 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-14 12:08 [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM Russell King
2003-08-14 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 16:32 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-09-17 9:23 ` Russell King
2003-08-14 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-14 16:55 ` John Levon
2003-08-14 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-14 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 17:30 ` John Levon
2003-08-14 19:18 ` [PATCH] Export pointer size in oprofilefs John Levon
2003-08-14 17:24 ` [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM Russell King
2003-08-14 20:12 ` Eli Carter
2003-08-14 20:42 ` Russell King
2003-08-18 19:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-14 17:16 John Bradford
2003-08-14 17:42 Luck, Tony
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