Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:59:47 +0100 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] drivers/char/mem: byte generating devices and poisoned mappings |
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:16:07 +0400 Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch adds 256 virtual character devices: /dev/byte0, ..., /dev/byte255. > Each works like /dev/zero but generates memory filled with particular byte.
More kernel code for an ultra-obscure corner case that can be done in user space
I don't see the point
Alan
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