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

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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



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