On 05/28/2013 07:37 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Eric, > > Should we schedule the removal of this interface after 1-2 releases > and give a warning once if anybody opens /dev/oldmem and tell them > to use /proc/vmcore instead? > > I am kind of inclined towards warning approarch. If there is any xyz > /dev/oldmem user in the wild out there, he/she atleast gets a chance to > migrate to /proc/vmcore. > This has been discussed ad nauseam at the Kernel Summit. It doesn't work. -hpa
