linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] livedump: Add the new misc device "livedump"

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Message-ID: <4EF0AE4A.3090509@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0500
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	YOSHIDA Masanori <masanori.yoshida.tv@...achi.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	frank.rowand@...sony.com, jan.kiszka@....de,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] livedump: Add the new misc device "livedump"

(12/20/11 2:23 AM), YOSHIDA Masanori wrote:
> Introduces the new misc device "livedump".
> The device only has open, close and empty ioctl operations.

When cc me, please cc whole patches. Now I don't find patch [0/5] yet.
so I haven't understand what problem do you tried to solve.

Moreover, mere 2 lines patch description is not good idea if you want
to add new device and/or new feature. Please imagine 'git log' only file
this 2 lines.
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