[Crash-utility] Re: Turn CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM in sysctl dev.mem.restricted

> > While the original submission of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM mentions > > that the option has been in RHEL and Fedora for 4 years without > > problems, that's only a half of the story. The truth is that at > > least RHEL has /dev/crash exactly to circumvent that /dev/mem > > restriction. Don't tell me that this is better than having that > > sysctl entry. ;-) > > I assume /dev/crash is read only I don't know. But if that matters, why can't we make /dev/mem write-only for certain areas and read-only for the rest ...? > You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all. Why? You don't write something about my arguments (as Alan does, even though I disagree), you only write that you "nak" it.