Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: Make config Filter access to /dev/mem defaulty

From: Michal Svoboda
Date: Thu Apr 15 2010 - 09:42:13 EST


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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