dev-oldmem-remove-the-interface-fix

Mention /dev/oldmem obsolescence in devices.txt

Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
index b9015912bca6bb6ea7a73ef4dc2a94f189346385..23721d3be3e6160e2057b0b11ef002e2828f458f 100644 (file)
--- 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