[PATCH v4 3/5] Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
From: Sourabh Jain <hidden>
Date: 2025-11-14 05:15:52
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kexec, lkml
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
The previous commit ("kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec")
moved all existing kexec sysfs entries to a new location. The ABI
document is updated to include a note about the deprecation of the old
kexec sysfs entries.
The following kexec sysfs entries are deprecated:
- /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded
- /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded
- /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size
- /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size
Cc: Aditya Gupta <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <redacted>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <redacted>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <redacted>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <redacted>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <redacted>
---
.../sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
rename Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump (61%)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
similarity index 61%
rename from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
rename to Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
index 96b24565b68e..96b4d41721cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-kernel-kexec-kdump@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +NOTE: all the ABIs listed in this file are deprecated and will be removed after 2028. + +Here are the alternative ABIs: ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| Deprecated | Alternative | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded | /sys/kernel/kexec/loaded | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_loaded | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_size | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ +| /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size | /sys/kernel/kexec/crash_elfcorehdr_size | ++------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ + + What: /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded Date: Jun 2006 Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.org
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