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

[Zhang Yanfei]

On 05/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2013 09:27:42 +0800 Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 

snip

>>
>> I've sent the v2 version and actually did what you said.
> 
> I can't find any v2 version of this patchset.
> 
> I did this:
> 
> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt~dev-oldmem-remove-the-interface-fix
> +++ a/Documentation/devices.txt
> @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
>  					export the buffered printk records.
>  		 12 = /dev/oldmem	Used by crashdump kernels to access
>  					the memory of the kernel that crashed.
> +					(obsolete)
>  
>    1 block	RAM disk
>  		  0 = /dev/ram0		First RAM disk
> _
> 
> 

v1 is the same with v2 except this patch. I attach it below:

-----------------------------------
>From d2f7baf2aba86069f941f32669a22dbd99082614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:44:09 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/devices.txt |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
index 08f01e7..315455a 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 - replaced by /proc/vmcore
 
   1 block	RAM disk
 		  0 = /dev/ram0		First RAM disk
-- 
1.7.1