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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	"kexec\@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 16:20:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc668x4w.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A02F59.8000103@gmail.com> (Zhang Yanfei's message of "Sat, 25 May 2013 11:26:17 +0800")

Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>

Won't we want to keep this reservation around to so that this number
doesn't get reused, and cause people confusion when
upgrading/downgrading kernels?

> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devices.txt |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
> index 08f01e7..4f85739 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
> @@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
>  		 10 = /dev/aio		Asynchronous I/O notification interface
>  		 11 = /dev/kmsg		Writes to this come out as printk's, reads
>  					export the buffered printk records.
> -		 12 = /dev/oldmem	Used by crashdump kernels to access
> -					the memory of the kernel that crashed.
>  
>    1 block	RAM disk
>  		  0 = /dev/ram0		First RAM disk

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-25 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25  3:21 [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25 23:20   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-05-26  0:58     ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-27  1:27       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-05-27  1:27         ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-29 22:20           ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-30  5:49             ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] mips: Remove savemaxmem parameter setup Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:31 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:33 ` [PATCH 6/7] ia64: Remove setting for saved_max_pfn Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  3:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] s390: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-25  7:11 ` [PATCH 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-25 23:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-28 14:37   ` Vivek Goyal
2013-05-28 15:11     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-29 22:11       ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-28 19:00     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-29 16:10       ` Vivek Goyal

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