Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 11:24:10 EST



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Russell King wrote:
>
> After reviewing the /proc/kcore and kclist issues, I've decided that I'm
> no longer prepared to even _think_ about supporting /proc/kcore on ARM -

I suspect we should just remove it altogether.

Does anybody actually _use_ /proc/kcore? It was one of those "cool
feature" things, but I certainly haven't ever used it myself except for
testing, and it's historically often been broken after various kernel
infrastructure updates, and people haven't complained..

Comments?

Linus

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