From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: jengelh@computergmbh.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@elte.hu, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:59:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080211205914.f357d179.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080211200329.2b272759@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:03:29 -0800 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> +config DEVKMEM
> + bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support"
> + help
> + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The
> + /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain
> + kind of kernel debugging operations.
> + When in doubt, say "N".
I think this should be `default y'. So that we don't cause /dev/kmem to
magically disappear for `make oldconfig' users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-10 23:55 [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-11 0:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-11 0:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-11 1:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-11 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-12 4:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-12 4:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-12 5:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
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