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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 68dabd7edd1d..88985c0b2529 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ menu "Character devices" source "drivers/tty/Kconfig" +config DEVMEM + bool "Memory device driver" + default y + help + The memory driver provides two character devices, mem and kmem, which + provide access to the system's memory. The mem device is a view of + physical memory, and each byte in the device corresponds to the + matching physical address. The kmem device is the same as mem, but + the addresses correspond to the kernel's virtual address space rather + than physical memory. These devices are standard parts of a Linux + system and most users should say Y here. You might say N if very + security conscience or memory is tight. + config DEVKMEM bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support" default y |