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

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Mar 19 2021 - 13:34:48 EST


On 2021-03-19 10:14:02 [-0700], Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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..

Debian has CONFIG_DEVKMEM disabled since 2.6.31.

> Linus

Sebastian