From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933075Ab3E1G2O (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 02:28:14 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:34602 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933008Ab3E1G2N convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 02:28:13 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,756,1363104000"; d="scan'208";a="7387164" Message-ID: <51A44DD5.5050301@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:25:25 +0800 From: Zhang Yanfei User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.8) Gecko/20121012 Thunderbird/10.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , HATAYAMA Daisuke , Simon Horman , "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Vivek Goyal , Zhang Yanfei Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete References: <1369721851.2776.37@driftwood> In-Reply-To: <1369721851.2776.37@driftwood> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/28 14:26:34, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/28 14:26:38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/28/2013 02:17 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 05/26/2013 08:54:19 PM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: >> 于 2013年05月27日 09:46, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道: >> > (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? >> > >> >> Does obsolete also mean "not used anymore"? I don't know. I think we can wait for some native >> English speakers to comment on this. > > Obsolete implies that it shouldn't be used anymore. There are exceptions to everything, of course... > > (Unused means nothing is using it. If there's still code using it, it's not unused. So yeah unused would imply removed.) > So, could I just use UNSED to replace OBSOLETE here? Or use "OBSOLETE/UNUSED"? -- Thanks. 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