On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Aishwarya Sengottuvelan <aishwarya.velan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI, > I am trying to complie the kernel with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM option > enabled. I have done the following > > 1) In menuconfig i excluded Filter Access To dev/mem . I can see # > CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set in .config > 2) i did make clean;make;make modules_install,make install & then reboot > 3) When i use mmap(/dev/mem,,,,) from user program, i still see the > code(drivers/char/mem.c) executed within > #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM > > this is my dmesg |tail -10 output > Program outmap tried to access /dev/mem between [mem 0x371fc000-0x371fcfff] > > What am i doing wrong? > > --Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Hi Have you booted with updated linux kernel? I suppose you have to make choose in you bootloader menu, otherwise default configuration might be used. On runtime you can easily check what are you running upon by $ uname -a or $ cat /proc/version Best wishes Vladimir Murzin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
