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

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Message-ID: <51A2B693.7000701@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 May 2013 10:27:47 +0900
From:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@...il.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, davej@...hat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Remove /dev/oldmem description

(2013/05/26 9:58), Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> 于 2013年05月26日 07:20, Eric W. Biederman 写道:
>> Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@...il.com> writes:
>>
>>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
>>
>> 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.
>

It looks enough writing "obsolete" according to the other parts of the same file.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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