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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Russell King wrote:
> 
> After reviewing the /proc/kcore and kclist issues, I've decided that I'm
> no longer prepared to even _think_ about supporting /proc/kcore on ARM -

I suspect we should just remove it altogether.

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?

		Linus