[PATCH v2 3/4] Documentation/ABI: mark /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated
Hari Bathini
hbathini at linux.ibm.com
Wed Nov 6 04:01:09 AEDT 2019
On 05/11/19 2:24 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
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> On 10/21/19 1:11 PM, Hari Bathini wrote:
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>> On 18/10/19 6:35 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>>> The /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files are replicated under
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>>> +Note: The following FADump sysfs files are deprecated.
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>>> + Deprecated Alternative
>>> + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> + /sys/kernel/fadump_enabled /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_enabled
>>> + /sys/kernel/fadump_registered /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_registered
>>> + /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_release_mem
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>> /sys/kernel/fadump/* looks tidy instead of /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_*
>> I mean, /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_enabled => /sys/kernel/fadump/enabled and such..
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> Could you please confirm whether you want to address the sysfs file path differently or
> actually changing the sysfs file name from fadump_enabled to enabled.
I meant, given the path "/sys/kernel/fadump/", the prefix fadump_ is redundant.
If there are no conventions that we should retain the same file name, I suggest
to drop the fadump_ prefix and just call them enabled, registered, etc..
- Hari
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