[PATCH] kexec_load manpage

Michael Kerrisk mtk.manpages at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 02:19:58 EDT 2010


On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:18:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor.org> writes:
>>
>> > Here are the beginnings of a kexec_load manpage.
>> >
>> > Probably needs some more review from Eric and may need some additional
>> > information.
>> >
>> > The syscall is actually only usable with a kernel patch to export
>> > the header I just sent separately.
>>
>> The syscall has been used for years with a separate non-kernel header.
>
> Yes but that's not a sane interface that can be documented.

Agreed. Surely the right thing to do is export the proper header?

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/



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