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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][6/6]Device abstraction for linear/raw view of the dump
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> 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?

Thanks,

M.