Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Mar 19 2021 - 13:21:06 EST


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:35 AM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I'll happily do this for the next merge window, but would really want
distros to confirm that they don't enable it.

I can confirm that it's certainly not enabled on any of the machines I
have, but..

Linus