On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [..] > How can anyone use /dev/oldmem correctly? To the best of > my knowledge there are no parsers of the ELF header passed > by /sbin/kexec in userspace. > > If there is anyone who cares they can complain and we can > revert the removal. All of the evidence is that everyone uses > /proc/vmcore. > Ok, that's fine. Given the fact that none of us has ever encountered /dev/oldmem user, it is reasonably safe to remove it. Thanks Vivek