From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1UhixZ-0001vk-7E for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 16:10:45 +0000 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:10:20 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface Message-ID: <20130529161020.GB22146@redhat.com> References: <51A02E50.5020507@gmail.com> <87mwri8wwu.fsf@xmission.com> <20130528143756.GD7088@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Simon Horman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Zhang Yanfei On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [..] > How can anyone use /dev/oldmem correctly? To the best of > my knowledge there are no parsers of the ELF header passed > by /sbin/kexec in userspace. > > If there is anyone who cares they can complain and we can > revert the removal. All of the evidence is that everyone uses > /proc/vmcore. > Ok, that's fine. Given the fact that none of us has ever encountered /dev/oldmem user, it is reasonably safe to remove it. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec