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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:01:31 +0100 From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [RFC trivial] printk.c: /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo in comments? Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:15 +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: >> Hello Joe, >> >> when having a look at printk.c, I noticed that two comments refer >> to /proc/vmcoreinfo and I wonder if that should not read /proc/vmcore. >> >> While at it, a typo in one of those coments could also be fixed. > > Hi Dirk. > > Thanks and yes this is sensible. > Adding Andrew Morton to cc's and resending as plain-text Hi Joe and Andrew, thank you for reviewing and accepting (indicated by another mail from Andrew) this patch. Dirk > From 2ef84ff3187633a3156c3a967c1dfc294292e492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:51:15 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of > /proc/vmcoreinfo > > In one of those comments a typo was fixed, too. > > Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net> > --- > kernel/printk/printk.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c > index b4e8500..694d1f9 100644 > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c > @@ -705,9 +705,9 @@ const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = { > > #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC > /* > - * This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo > + * This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcore > * > - * /proc/vmcoreinfo is used by various utiilties, like crash and makedumpfile to > + * /proc/vmcore is used by various utilities, like crash and makedumpfile to > * obtain access to symbols that are otherwise very difficult to locate. These > * symbols are specifically used so that utilities can access and extract the > * dmesg log from a vmcore file after a crash. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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