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Message-ID: <4A1CFBCB.8020808@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 16:37:31 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rdunlap@...otime.net, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 03:28 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>   
>> exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to
>> move it into Documentation/x86 directory.
>>
>> This patch is on top of the previous one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
>>
>> ---
>> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/exception.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/exception.txt
>> +++ /dev/null
>>     
>
>   
>> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
>>     
>
> What is the reason of this name change exception.txt -> extable.txt
>   
Hello,

Because this doc explains how exception tables work on x86, not the 
hardware concept
"exceptions" of x86 CPU, thus extable.txt is much more reasonable. :)


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