[PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Sat May 25 19:20:31 EDT 2013


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

> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at 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 at cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej at 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



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