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/dev/oldmem: Remove the interface
authorZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:08:23 +0000 (10:08 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:27:42 +0000 (17:27 +1000)
commitc94f48e8d45d114dc67fe2e74f8751bd28c53e2c
treef3e302fc42b39cf2a109a455463b105eaa999e55
parentfc3e630a6033931a56ebe95ec94edad520389d38
/dev/oldmem: Remove the interface

/dev/oldmem provides the interface for us to access the "old memory" in
the dump-capture kernel.  Unfortunately, no one actually uses this
interface.

And this interface could actually cause some real problems if used on ia64
where the cached/uncached accesses are mixed.  See the discussion from the
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/386.
So Eric suggested that we should remove /dev/oldmem as an unused piece of
code.

Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/mem.c