mainline 4.x /dev/mem

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Mon May 18 11:00:04 UTC 2015


On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 06:36:55PM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> I was testing out the mainline version and noticed that dmidecode no longer
> works.
> 
> Problem is that mainline is now compiled with
> # CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set
> # CONFIG_DEVKMEM is not set
> 
> and /dev/mem is needed for dmidecode to work.

Seems to have been lost in the 4.1 rebase.  I've reenabled it, and
assuming it builds the next -rc should have it.

-apw




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