Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933014Ab3E1GRg (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 02:17:36 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f180.google.com ([209.85.214.180]:32770 "EHLO mail-ob0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932977Ab3E1GRf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 02:17:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 01:17:31 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete To: Zhang Yanfei Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke , Zhang Yanfei , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Simon Horman , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <51A2BCCB.2090900@cn.fujitsu.com> (from zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com on Sun May 26 20:54:19 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1369721851.2776.37@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2159 Lines: 55 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.) Rob-- 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/