Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/fadump: sysfs for fadump memory reservation

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> On 26/08/19 4:14 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>> On 8/26/19 3:46 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>>> On 8/26/19 3:29 PM, Hari Bathini wrote:
>>>> On 10/08/19 11:29 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>>>>> Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by
>>>>> fadump for saving the crash dump.
>>>>>
>>>>> Add an ABI doc entry for new sysfs interface.
>>>>>    - /sys/kernel/fadump_mem_reserved
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changelog:
>>>>> v1 -> v2:
>>>>>   - Added ABI doc for new sysfs interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> v2 -> v3:
>>>>>   - Updated the ABI documentation.
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump    |  6 ++++++
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't this be Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump_mem_reserved?
>> 
>> How about documenting fadump_mem_reserved and other sysfs attributes suggested
>> by you in a single file Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-fadump?
>
> I wouldn't mind that but please do check if it is breaking a convention..

AIUI a file named like that would hold the documentation for the files
inside a directory called /sys/kernel/fadump.

And in fact that's probably where these files should live, rather than
just dropped directly into /sys/kernel.

cheers