From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266181AbUHRMgW (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:36:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265038AbUHRMdv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:33:51 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:54711 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266200AbUHRMaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:30:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:59:49 +0530 From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , litke@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][6/6]Device abstraction for linear/raw view of the dump Message-ID: <20040818122949.GB3597@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: hari@in.ibm.com References: <20040817120239.GA3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817120531.GB3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817120717.GC3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817120809.GD3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817120911.GE3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817121017.GF3916@in.ibm.com> <20040817121332.GG3916@in.ibm.com> <175200000.1092783201@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <175200000.1092783201@flay> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Martin, On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:53:21PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > This patch contains the code that enables us to access the > > previous kernel's memory as /dev/hmem. > > One of the bits of feedback we got at kernel summit was that nobody > liked the /dev/hmem name ... could we change it to /dev/oldmem, perhaps? I'll change it to /dev/oldmem in the next iteration of the patches. > > Thanks, > > M. > Regards, Hari -- Hariprasad Nellitheertha Linux Technology Center India Software Labs IBM India, Bangalore