From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755800Ab3E0Bqh (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 21:46:37 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:41149 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755686Ab3E0Bqg (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 21:46:36 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck: OK by SHieldMailChecker v1.8.9 X-SHieldMailCheckerPolicyVersion: FJ-ISEC-20120718-2 Message-ID: <51A2BAE9.40307@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:17 +0900 From: HATAYAMA Daisuke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhang Yanfei CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Simon Horman , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete References: <51A1AC4A.60506@gmail.com> <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote: > From: Zhang Yanfei > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei > Cc: Dave Jones > --- > Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +-- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt > index 08f01e7..c8e4002 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devices.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt > @@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. > 10 = /dev/aio Asynchronous I/O notification interface > 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's, reads > export the buffered printk records. > - 12 = /dev/oldmem Used by crashdump kernels to access > - the memory of the kernel that crashed. > + 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE > > 1 block RAM disk > 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk > This is the new patch. Looking at other parts of devices.txt, obsolete is sometimes used together with unused. I guess obsolete means this is old interface so don't use it as much as possible and unused means this is not used at all now. You remove old memory interface completely in this patch set, so is it better to add unused, too? -- Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1UgmWZ-0004r4-O8 for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 01:47:01 +0000 Received: from m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.72]) by fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7560C3EE0C3 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m2 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D7845DD78 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.92]) by m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A55145DE50 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACFB1DB803E for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from m1001.s.css.fujitsu.com (m1001.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.240.81.139]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4751DB8038 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <51A2BAE9.40307@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:46:17 +0900 From: HATAYAMA Daisuke MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete References: <51A1AC4A.60506@gmail.com> <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Zhang Yanfei Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Simon Horman , "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Vivek Goyal (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote: > From: Zhang Yanfei > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei > Cc: Dave Jones > --- > Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +-- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt > index 08f01e7..c8e4002 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devices.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt > @@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. > 10 = /dev/aio Asynchronous I/O notification interface > 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's, reads > export the buffered printk records. > - 12 = /dev/oldmem Used by crashdump kernels to access > - the memory of the kernel that crashed. > + 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE > > 1 block RAM disk > 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk > This is the new patch. Looking at other parts of devices.txt, obsolete is sometimes used together with unused. I guess obsolete means this is old interface so don't use it as much as possible and unused means this is not used at all now. You remove old memory interface completely in this patch set, so is it better to add unused, too? -- Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec