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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:10:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130529161020.GB22146@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec5cd077-c314-49d5-8970-439ffb9539fa@email.android.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25  3:21 [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25 23:20   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-26  0:58     ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-27  1:27       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-05-27  1:27         ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-29 22:20           ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-30  5:49             ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] mips: Remove savemaxmem parameter setup Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:31 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:33 ` [PATCH 6/7] ia64: Remove setting for saved_max_pfn Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] s390: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  7:11 ` [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-25 23:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-28 14:37   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-05-28 15:11     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-29 22:11       ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-28 19:00     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-29 16:10       ` Vivek Goyal [this message]

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