Comment 6 for bug 354221
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 354221] Re: [regression] /dev/kmem available | #6 |
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On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:07 +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> There's no good reason for us to have it, no. However, it certainly
> makes regression testing easier to already have the device file there.
> ;) I'm happy to lose the device node; our regression test can just create
> the node first when verifying that the kernel interface is disabled.
>
It's one of the core devices in /lib/udev/devices that we ALWAYS create
in /dev and never remove even if the underlying kernel device goes away.
I'm more than happy to get rid of it, meaning that the only fixed
devices will be "null" and "console" (with ppp, loop0 and net/tun
available to force-load the modules)
Scott
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