Add /dev/oldmem to devices.txt documentation
authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:20:09 +0000 (01:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:52:23 +0000 (07:52 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/devices.txt

index 8de132a02ba952867020a846229b0818ee73d214..6c46730c631a6952fc34beb4302011463d754011 100644 (file)
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
                  9 = /dev/urandom      Faster, less secure random number gen.
                 10 = /dev/aio          Asynchronous I/O notification interface
                 11 = /dev/kmsg         Writes to this come out as printk's
                  9 = /dev/urandom      Faster, less secure random number gen.
                 10 = /dev/aio          Asynchronous I/O notification interface
                 11 = /dev/kmsg         Writes to this come out as printk's
+                12 = /dev/oldmem       Used by crashdump kernels to access
+                                       the memory of the kernel that crashed.
 
   1 block      RAM disk
                  0 = /dev/ram0         First RAM disk
 
   1 block      RAM disk
                  0 = /dev/ram0         First RAM disk