From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933175Ab2C2Rab (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:30:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38435 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753055Ab2C2Ra1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:30:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4F749C26.60804@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:30:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maarten ter Huurne CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem: Add kernel config option to omit this device. References: <1333041724-20532-1-git-send-email-maarten@treewalker.org> In-Reply-To: <1333041724-20532-1-git-send-email-maarten@treewalker.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/29/2012 10:22 AM, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > Many systems don't need /dev/mem, so make it optional. > It saves some space on embedded systems. > > Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne I would like to see it being modular if it is made optional. I think that would be the right thing anyway. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.