Commit 8c56ec12 authored by Hideo Aoki's avatar Hideo Aoki Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] proc.txt cleanup

In Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, explanation of /proc/meminfo is
described in section 1.3 (IDE devices in /proc/ide).  I think that it
should be described in section 1.2 (Kernel data).
Signed-off-by: default avatarHideo Aoki <aoki@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1caf076b
......@@ -350,22 +350,6 @@ available. In this case, there are 0 chunks of 2^0*PAGE_SIZE available in
ZONE_DMA, 4 chunks of 2^1*PAGE_SIZE in ZONE_DMA, 101 chunks of 2^4*PAGE_SIZE
available in ZONE_NORMAL, etc...
1.3 IDE devices in /proc/ide
----------------------------
The subdirectory /proc/ide contains information about all IDE devices of which
the kernel is aware. There is one subdirectory for each IDE controller, the
file drivers and a link for each IDE device, pointing to the device directory
in the controller specific subtree.
The file drivers contains general information about the drivers used for the
IDE devices:
> cat /proc/ide/drivers
ide-cdrom version 4.53
ide-disk version 1.08
..............................................................................
meminfo:
......@@ -480,6 +464,22 @@ VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area
VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used
VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free
1.3 IDE devices in /proc/ide
----------------------------
The subdirectory /proc/ide contains information about all IDE devices of which
the kernel is aware. There is one subdirectory for each IDE controller, the
file drivers and a link for each IDE device, pointing to the device directory
in the controller specific subtree.
The file drivers contains general information about the drivers used for the
IDE devices:
> cat /proc/ide/drivers
ide-cdrom version 4.53
ide-disk version 1.08
More detailed information can be found in the controller specific
subdirectories. These are named ide0, ide1 and so on. Each of these
directories contains the files shown in table 1-4.
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