Re: [PATCH] Fix mmap_kmem (was: [question] What's the difference between /dev/kmem and /dev/mem)

Steven Rostedt
2005-08-12T17:08:07Z

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> The above patches were in -mm for a while, though they didn't
> have a config option, they just 'did it', and some of the
> changes were a bit unclean, but I can polish that up if you're
> interested.

Again, I'm asking to have it turned into a config option. Even default to
off. I understand that /dev/kmem shouldn't be in a production machine.
There's no reason for it. But it is nice to have when debugging the
kernel. I'll make the changes if need be, to make this into a config
option (placed in the kernel debug section). I'll even maintain it to
keep it working. But I don't want yet another thing I need to write
myself for debugging the kernel.

Thanks,

-- Steve