于 2013年05月27日 09:46, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道:
> (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/devices.txt |    3 +--
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
>> index 08f01e7..c8e4002 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
>>
>>     1 block    RAM disk
>>             0 = /dev/ram0        First RAM disk
>>
> 
> This is the new patch. Looking at other parts of devices.txt, obsolete is
> sometimes used together with unused. I guess obsolete means this is old 
> interface so
> don't use it as much as possible and unused means this is not used at all now.
> You remove old memory interface completely in this patch set, so is it better 
> to add
> unused, too?
> 

Does obsolete also mean "not used anymore"? I don't know. I think we can wait 
for some native
English speakers to comment on this.

Thanks
Zhang
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