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[PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabled

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Attempts to read() from the non-existent dmesg buffer will return zero and
userspace tends to get stuck in a busyloop.

So just remove /dev/kmsg altogether if CONFIG_PRINTK=n.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Mike Galbraith
2006-12-06 20:37:42 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 44ddc4f567
commit c36264dfb2
3 changed files with 5 additions and 7 deletions
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fs/proc/proc_misc.c
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@ -696,9 +696,11 @@ void __init proc_misc_init(void)
proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts");
/* And now for trickier ones */
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
entry = create_proc_entry("kmsg", S_IRUSR, &proc_root);
if (entry)
entry->proc_fops = &proc_kmsg_operations;
#endif
create_seq_entry("devices", 0, &proc_devinfo_operations);
create_seq_entry("cpuinfo", 0, &proc_cpuinfo_operations);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK