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>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kexec\@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:29:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqqi7n73.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A1AD67.4030800@gmail.com> (Zhang Yanfei's message of "Sun, 26 May 2013 14:36:23 +0800")
Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
> index 08f01e7..c8e4002 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
> @@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ 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.
> + 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE
Let me suggest the slightly better.
+ 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE - replaced by /proc/vmcore
Pointing to people to /proc/vmcore should help anyone who is trying to
understand what is going on.
> 1 block RAM disk
> 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-26 6:31 [PATCH v2 0/7] Remove unused /dev/oldmem interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-27 1:46 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-05-27 1:54 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-27 2:16 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2013-05-28 6:17 ` Rob Landley
2013-05-28 6:25 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-28 17:26 ` Rob Landley
2013-05-28 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-28 22:29 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-05-29 7:45 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] mips: Remove savemaxmem parameter setup Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:42 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] powerpc: " Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ia64: Remove setting for saved_max_pfn Zhang Yanfei
2013-05-26 6:45 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] s390: " Zhang Yanfei
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