On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:20:31AM -0400, 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. > > > > > > so where's it at? if anywhere. thanks. > > > > erik@arthur:~ > ls -l /dev/kmem > > crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 2 2008-03-29 23:39 /dev/kmem > > > > Udev created it for me, so there should be kernel support. I can > > even read from it: > > hmmmm ... i have no such special file on fedora 8, but there is a line > for it in the udev default rules file. how odd. what distro are you > using, erik? Debian etch + backports.org packages with a custom kernel. > p.s. i do have /dev/mem, which doesn't surprise me. maybe i'll ask > on the fedora list. A quick Google search suggests Red Hat/Fedora distro's don't have /dev/kmem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/328 Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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