From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753011Ab1LTPsn (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:43 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:60533 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752856Ab1LTPsb (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4EF0AE4A.3090509@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: YOSHIDA Masanori CC: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , KOSAKI Motohiro , Kevin Hilman , Marcelo Tosatti , Michal Marek , Rik van Riel , Tejun Heo , Yinghai Lu , frank.rowand@am.sony.com, jan.kiszka@web.de, yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] livedump: Add the new misc device "livedump" References: <20111220072028.9113.74876.stgit@t3500.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> <20111220072343.GC9220@t3500.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20111220072343.GC9220@t3500.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (12/20/11 2:23 AM), YOSHIDA Masanori wrote: > Introduces the new misc device "livedump". > The device only has open, close and empty ioctl operations. When cc me, please cc whole patches. Now I don't find patch [0/5] yet. so I haven't understand what problem do you tried to solve. Moreover, mere 2 lines patch description is not good idea if you want to add new device and/or new feature. Please imagine 'git log' only file this 2 lines.