Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755982Ab3E0CQ6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 22:16:58 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:40442 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755779Ab3E0CQ5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 22:16:57 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck: OK by SHieldMailChecker v1.8.9 X-SHieldMailCheckerPolicyVersion: FJ-ISEC-20120718-2 Message-ID: <51A2C1EB.6050207@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:16:11 +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: 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> <51A2BCCB.2090900@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <51A2BCCB.2090900@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1991 Lines: 49 (2013/05/27 10:54), 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. > Yes. To be honest, I'm still suspecting "unused" doesn't include meaning of "removed"... -- Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke -- 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/