From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:58:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: make /dev/kmem a config option X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc1~679 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b781ecb6a379f155568ef7093e38c6c1d857fe53;p=pandora-kernel.git make /dev/kmem a config option Make /dev/kmem a config option; /dev/kmem is VERY rarely used, and when used, it's generally for no good (rootkits tend to be the most common users). With this config option, users have the choice to disable /dev/kmem, saving some size as well. A patch to disable /dev/kmem has been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for 4+ years now without any known problems or legit users of /dev/kmem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make CONFIG_DEVKMEM default to y] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed