From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4A2C433C1 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95319619C0 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231614AbhCWNRp (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:17:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46078 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231596AbhCWNQq (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:16:46 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D2DB61984; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:16:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1616505405; bh=AmFiU4KVBYaIeCDFQGhuJz+mpCoZyFZrcMjuXB3Sh5I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=IVEH+ujbLlXOQ+V272Ms1CzT5I5azgRZ+Q6GpZFwwjN417FzGMdEFssFtDqCkF/DB PXNxJiiUi0cW9fVuDnzymC8h9dzrY08sp91oiYPARRj0Xxi58t0pMvLXxDr77aZIRJ gkiBOXRuPJD+KXUXAAwCiGyaVTi3t/9adGg9UWo0= Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:16:42 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Alexander A. Klimov" , Alexander Viro , Alexandre Belloni , Andrew Lunn , Andrew Morton , Andrey Zhizhikin , Arnd Bergmann , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Brian Cain , Christian Borntraeger , Christophe Leroy , Chris Zankel , Corentin Labbe , "David S. Miller" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Gerald Schaefer , Greentime Hu , Gregory Clement , Heiko Carstens , Helge Deller , Hillf Danton , huang ying , Ingo Molnar , Ivan Kokshaysky , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jiaxun Yang , Jonas Bonn , Jonathan Corbet , Kairui Song , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Kuninori Morimoto , Linus Torvalds , Linux API , Liviu Dudau , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Luc Van Oostenryck , Luis Chamberlain , Matthew Wilcox , Matt Turner , Max Filippov , Michael Ellerman , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Mikulas Patocka , Minchan Kim , Niklas Schnelle , Oleksiy Avramchenko , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Mackerras , "Pavel Machek (CIP)" , Pavel Machek , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Pierre Morel , Randy Dunlap , Richard Henderson , Rich Felker , Robert Richter , Rob Herring , Russell King , Sam Ravnborg , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Stafford Horne , Stefan Kristiansson , Steven Rostedt , Sudeep Holla , Theodore Dubois , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Thomas Gleixner , Vasily Gorbik , Viresh Kumar , William Cohen , Xiaoming Ni , Yoshinori Sato Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good Message-ID: References: <20210319143452.25948-1-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210319143452.25948-1-david@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:34:49PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Let's start a discussion if /dev/kmem is worth keeping around and > fixing/maintaining or if we should just remove it now for good. > > More details / findings in patch #1. Patch #2 and #3 perform minor cleanups > based on removed /dev/kmem support. > > Only compile-tested on x86-64 -- good enough for discussing the general > topic (RFC). I'll gladly take this in my char/misc tree for now, to show up in linux-next to get some testing to see if anyone complains. Let me know if that will help out. thanks, greg k-h