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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Yury Gribov <y.gribov@samsung.com>,
	Alexandr Andreev <aandreev@parallels.com>,
	Vassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] drivers/char/mem: byte generating devices and poisoned mappings
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:59:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140401175947.5b5a3298@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140331211607.26784.43976.stgit@zurg>

On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:16:07 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch adds 256 virtual character devices: /dev/byte0, ..., /dev/byte255.
> Each works like /dev/zero but generates memory filled with particular byte.

More kernel code for an ultra-obscure corner case that can be done in
user space

I don't see the point

Alan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31 21:16 Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-04-01 10:36 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-04-01 15:15   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-04-01 16:07     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-04-01 16:59 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-04-01 17:27   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov

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