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[Doug Smythies <1462822@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  There is a relatively new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_DEVMEM.
- I do not understand why, but for some reason "is not set" for Ubuntu, and therefore dmidecode does not work. 
+ I do not understand why, but for some reason "is not set" for Ubuntu, and therefore dmidecode does not work.
  I think that, in general, we want dmidecode to work.
  
  I found this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2015-May/057250.html,
  and so had expected it to be set to yes by now, but in Kernel 4.1RC6 it still isn't.
  (And yes, I am talking mainline kernels here, which I know are not supported, but I am just trying to help.)
  
  Is there a reason to have it not set?
  
  On IRC apw asked me to enter this bug report and to assign it to him.
  
- By the way, I compiled 4.1RC6 with CONFIG_DEVMEM=y and now dmidecode
- works fine.
+ By the way, I compiled 4.1RC6 changing from "#CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set"
+ to "CONFIG_DEVMEM=y" myself and now dmidecode works fine.

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Title:
  Kernel configuration parameter CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set, it should be

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There is a relatively new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_DEVMEM.
  I do not understand why, but for some reason "is not set" for Ubuntu, and therefore dmidecode does not work.
  I think that, in general, we want dmidecode to work.

  I found this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2015-May/057250.html,
  and so had expected it to be set to yes by now, but in Kernel 4.1RC6 it still isn't.
  (And yes, I am talking mainline kernels here, which I know are not supported, but I am just trying to help.)

  Is there a reason to have it not set?

  On IRC apw asked me to enter this bug report and to assign it to him.

  By the way, I compiled 4.1RC6 changing from "#CONFIG_DEVMEM is not
  set" to "CONFIG_DEVMEM=y" myself and now dmidecode works fine.

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