On 03:20 Sat 29 Mar , Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem > these days? was it actually deleted? back in 2005, jon corbet was > certainly hinting at this: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ > > and i don't see it today on my system, and i don't see a kernel config > option for it either, but i also don't see an explicit removal of that > feature in "git log" and log entries as recent as january of last year > still talk about it. I do not know if it is still in the kernel. But the missing device says nothing. You can create it with "mknod /dev/kmem c 1 2". Also see the manpage of mknod and the "devices.txt" file in the kernel Documentation/. -Michi -- programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks see http://michaelblizek.homelinux.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ