linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: Make config Filter access to /dev/mem default y

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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:41:53 +0200
From:	Michal Svoboda <michal.svoboda@...nts.felk.cvut.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: Make config Filter access to /dev/mem default
 y

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Access to /dev/mem being filtered in PAT obviously applies only to x86. 
> 
> Architectures which don't do such filtering in their respective 
> phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() still need this option.

So why not use it for all archs uniformly? Is PAT filtering better in
some ways? 


Michal Svoboda


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