Re: [PATCH] docs: stable-ABI: Document /sys/kernel/notes

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Sep 16 2020 - 14:19:15 EST


On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 23:37:52 -0700
Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Document the notes file in sysfs as the running vmlinux's .note section
> in binary format. Hopefully this helps someone like me realize the
> kernel exposes the note section in sysfs in the future. Take the date
> from when the file was introduced. It's been a while so presumably this
> is stable and not testing material.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-kernel-notes | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-kernel-notes
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-kernel-notes b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-kernel-notes
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2c76ee9e67f7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-kernel-notes
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +What: /sys/kernel/notes
> +Date: July 2009
> +Contact: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description: The /sys/kernel/notes file contains the binary representation
> + of the running vmlinux's .notes section.

Applied, thanks.

jon