Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:39:48 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Turn CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM in sysctl dev.mem.restricted |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:47:45 +0100 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> 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
but your series still makes absolutely no sense to me... really. Nak.
You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all.
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