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SubjectRe: [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir
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On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:37 +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 03:28 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> >
> >> exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to
> >> move it into Documentation/x86 directory.
> >>
> >> This patch is on top of the previous one.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/exception.txt
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/exception.txt
> >> +++ /dev/null
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/x86/extable.txt
> >>
> >
> > What is the reason of this name change exception.txt -> extable.txt
> >
> Hello,
>
> Because this doc explains how exception tables work on x86, not the
> hardware concept
> "exceptions" of x86 CPU, thus extable.txt is much more reasonable. :)
>

In such case you can use exception-tables.txt or
exception-tables-howto.txt

--
JSR



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