Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 May 2013 12:10:20 -0400 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface |
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
[..] > How can anyone use /dev/oldmem correctly? To the best of > my knowledge there are no parsers of the ELF header passed > by /sbin/kexec in userspace. > > If there is anyone who cares they can complain and we can > revert the removal. All of the evidence is that everyone uses > /proc/vmcore. >
Ok, that's fine. Given the fact that none of us has ever encountered /dev/oldmem user, it is reasonably safe to remove it.
Thanks Vivek
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