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

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Mar 22 2021 - 09:35:25 EST


On Fri 19-03-21 10:14:02, 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.

SLES (starting from 15sp2) and OpenSUSE kernels have it disabled as well.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs