From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756386AbZE0In5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 04:43:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755609AbZE0Int (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 04:43:49 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35904 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754515AbZE0Int (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 04:43:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1CFBCB.8020808@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:37:31 +0800 From: Amerigo Wang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090319) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput 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 References: <20090527072952.6279.72977.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090527073001.6279.90725.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <1243412698.3109.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1243412698.3109.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 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 >> Cc: Randy Dunlap >> Cc: Ingo Molnar >> >> --- >> 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. :)