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

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 08/14/03

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    To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date:	14 Aug 2003 17:47:03 +0100

    On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 17:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > 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?

    Now if you'd agree to merge the kgdb stubs to replace it.... ;)

    I see no problem with it either going or becoming an arch specific
    module someone can go write if they care about it and insmod if they
    actually use.

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