linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem: Add kernel config option to omit this device.

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:30:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@...ewalker.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem: Add kernel config option to omit this device.

On 03/29/2012 10:22 AM, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> Many systems don't need /dev/mem, so make it optional.
> It saves some space on embedded systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@...ewalker.org>

I would like to see it being modular if it is made optional.  I think
that would be the right thing anyway.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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