Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751588AbaFFFp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:45:26 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com ([74.125.82.179]:65226 "EHLO mail-we0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750907AbaFFFpZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:45:25 -0400 Message-ID: <5391556D.6090204@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:45:17 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Goyal CC: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, WANG Chao , Linux Kernel , kexec@lists.infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina , dyoung@redhat.com, bhe@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , Linux API Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading References: <1401800822-27425-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <20140603131203.GA23395@redhat.com> <20140604092214.GA17528@dhcp-17-89.nay.redhat.com> <20140604175031.GA4406@redhat.com> <20140605140416.GB17389@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20140605140416.GB17389@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/05/2014 04:04 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:39:10PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Vivek, >> >> As per Documentation/SubmitChecklist , please CC linux-api@ on patces >> that change the ABI/API. See >> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html. > > Hi Michael, > > Sorry, I did not notice that. I will CC linux-api@ in next version of > patches in patches which introduce new systemcal.. > >> >> Also, is there some draft man page for this new system call? > > No, there is none yet. In fact I don't see a man page for old kexec > system call either kexec_load(). Is this not what you are meaning: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/kexec_load.2.html ? (It probably could be improved...) > Do you want me to write man page for this new syscall? These days, that's considered a desirable accompaniment to new syscall proposals. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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/