Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755890Ab3E0B63 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 21:58:29 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:29600 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755690Ab3E0B62 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 21:58:28 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,747,1363104000"; d="scan'208";a="7373817" Message-ID: <51A2BCCB.2090900@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:54:19 +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: HATAYAMA Daisuke CC: Zhang Yanfei , "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> <51A2BAE9.40307@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <51A2BAE9.40307@jp.fujitsu.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/27 09:55:29, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/27 09:57:01 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 Content-Length: 1798 Lines: 43 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. Thanks Zhang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/