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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface
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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