* Arjan van de Ven [2008-11-16 07:39]: > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:47:45 +0100 > Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > While the original submission of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM mentions that > > the option has been in RHEL and Fedora for 4 years without problems, > > that's only a half of the story. The truth is that at least RHEL > > has /dev/crash exactly to circumvent that /dev/mem restriction. Don't > > tell me that this is better than having that sysctl entry. ;-) > > I assume /dev/crash is read only I don't know. But if that matters, why can't we make /dev/mem write-only for certain areas and read-only for the rest ...? > You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all. Why? You don't write something about my arguments (as Alan does, even though I disagree), you only write that you "nak" it. Regards, Bernhard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
