Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964928Ab3E2HsI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2013 03:48:08 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:19530 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935105Ab3E2HsG (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2013 03:48:06 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,763,1363104000"; d="scan'208";a="7399706" Message-ID: <51A5B210.6020501@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:20 +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: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Zhang Yanfei , Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Simon Horman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete References: <51A1AC4A.60506@gmail.com> <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> <87wqqi7n73.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87wqqi7n73.fsf@xmission.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/29 15:46:29, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2013/05/29 15:46:30, Serialize complete at 2013/05/29 15:46:30 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2418 Lines: 65 On 05/29/2013 06:29 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Zhang Yanfei writes: > >> 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 > > Let me suggest the slightly better. > > + 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE - replaced by /proc/vmcore > > Pointing to people to /proc/vmcore should help anyone who is trying to > understand what is going on. Makes sense to me. Updated patch below: ----------------------------------- >From d2f7baf2aba86069f941f32669a22dbd99082614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yanfei Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:44:09 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei --- Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index 08f01e7..315455a 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 - replaced by /proc/vmcore 1 block RAM disk 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk -- 1.7.1 -- 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/