From a11edb59a05d8d5195419bd1fc28d82752324158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yanfei Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:08:36 -0700 Subject: /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface /dev/oldmem provides the interface for us to access the "old memory" in the dump-capture kernel. Unfortunately, no one actually uses this interface. And this interface could actually cause some real problems if used on ia64 where the cached/uncached accesses are mixed. See the discussion from the link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/386. So Eric suggested that we should remove /dev/oldmem as an unused piece of code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention /dev/oldmem obsolescence in devices.txt] Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Michael Holzheu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/devices.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index b9015912bca6..23721d3be3e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ 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. + 12 = /dev/oldmem OBSOLETE - replaced by /proc/vmcore 1 block RAM disk 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b