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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	rdunlap@xenotime.net, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:37:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1CFBCB.8020808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243412698.3109.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 03:28 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>   
>> exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to
>> move it into Documentation/x86 directory.
>>
>> This patch is on top of the previous one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>>
>> ---
>> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/exception.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/exception.txt
>> +++ /dev/null
>>     
>
>   
>> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
>>     
>
> What is the reason of this name change exception.txt -> extable.txt
>   
Hello,

Because this doc explains how exception tables work on x86, not the 
hardware concept
"exceptions" of x86 CPU, thus extable.txt is much more reasonable. :)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27  7:27 [Patch 1/2] Doc: update Documentation/exception.txt Amerigo Wang
2009-05-27  7:28 ` [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir Amerigo Wang
2009-05-27  7:50   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-05-27  8:24   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-27  8:37     ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-05-27  8:56       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-31  3:31         ` Amerigo Wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-31  4:46 [Patch 1/2] Doc: update Documentation/exception.txt Amerigo Wang
2009-05-31  4:46 ` [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir Amerigo Wang
2009-07-01 20:03 [PATCH " Randy Dunlap
2009-07-06 22:15 [PATCH 2/2] doc: " Randy Dunlap
2009-07-08 22:02 [PATCH 2/2] Doc: " Randy Dunlap

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