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

From: Zhang Yanfei
Date: Sat May 25 2013 - 20:59:01 EST


ä 2013å05æ26æ 07:20, Eric W. Biederman åé:
> Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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?

Ah, yes. I will just keep this and add a note to make people know that
it is removed in the next version.

Thanks
Zhang

>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 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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