Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:56:09 +0100 | From | Bernhard Walle <> | Subject | Re: Turn CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM in sysctl dev.mem.restricted |
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* Arjan van de Ven [2008-11-16 07:39]: > > 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
I don't know. But if that matters, why can't we make /dev/mem write-only for certain areas and read-only for the rest ...?
> You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all.
Why? You don't write something about my arguments (as Alan does, even though I disagree), you only write that you "nak" it.
Regards, Bernhard
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