Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] Documentation/ABI: mark /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files deprecated
From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2019-11-05 17:01:28
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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2019-11-05 17:01:28
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On 05/11/19 2:24 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:
On 10/21/19 1:11 PM, Hari Bathini wrote:quoted
On 18/10/19 6:35 PM, Sourabh Jain wrote:quoted
The /sys/kernel/fadump_* sysfs files are replicated under[...]quoted
+Note: The following FADump sysfs files are deprecated. + + 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/sys/kernel/fadump/* looks tidy instead of /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_* I mean, /sys/kernel/fadump/fadump_enabled => /sys/kernel/fadump/enabled and such..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