From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:45:17 +0200 Message-ID: <5391556D.6090204@gmail.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140605140416.GB17389-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Vivek Goyal Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, WANG Chao , Linux Kernel , kexec-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina , dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, bhe-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , Linux API List-Id: linux-api@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/