Dear intrigeri,
>This wishlist bug is a duplicate of #556365, which was closed (for
>very good reasons, if you ask me). Therefore, I believe it should be
>closed as well.
I very much disagree, unless this wishlist will be closed by enabling the
feature requested.
This *useful* feature has been requested number of times and so far I've only
seen ill excuses like "nobody would use such feature" for not enabling it.
Well, this logic will bring us nowhere.
In-kernel MEMTEST is harmless and can be activated only with boot option.
It won't hurt to enable it simply because someone might need it.
For example OpenSUSE have it for ages.
Secondly, as I demonstrate in my MEMTEST evaluation
http://onlyjob.blogspot.com/2011/01/memtest-explained-linux-kernel.html
It can be handy in paranoid configurations as precausion against data
corruption. It can reduce the damage and therefore it would be good to have
it.
I think we never had a good enough reason for not enabling it.
>OTOH, I have since asked for memtest to be enabled for totally
>different reasons, see #646361.
Fantastic, I'm very glad to see another use for this feature.
Thank you.
Regards,
Dmitry.
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