Re: [Patch 2/2] Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 04:44:04 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

---
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. :)


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