[PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete
Zhang Yanfei
zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com
Sun May 26 21:54:19 EDT 2013
于 2013年05月27日 09:46, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道:
> (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Dave Jones <davej at 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
>>
>> 1 block RAM disk
>> 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk
>>
>
> This is the new patch. Looking at other parts of devices.txt, obsolete is
> sometimes used together with unused. I guess obsolete means this is old interface so
> don't use it as much as possible and unused means this is not used at all now.
> You remove old memory interface completely in this patch set, so is it better to add
> unused, too?
>
Does obsolete also mean "not used anymore"? I don't know. I think we can wait for some native
English speakers to comment on this.
Thanks
Zhang
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