linux-kernel - [PATCH] bug-hunting.rst: Clarify bytes sequence format when making "Code:" human-readable

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Message-ID: <153138515186.6379.2711739561825941424.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:46:25 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     corbet@....net, christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr,
        ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] bug-hunting.rst: Clarify bytes sequence format when making
 "Code:" human-readable

Bytes have to be separated commas, and this is not obvious
for a person, who does not write in pure ".byte" assembler.
Let's clarify this and make visible for people.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst
index f278b289e260..861ee752eae9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ If you don't have access to the code you can also debug on some crash dumps
             .text
             .globl foo
      foo:
-            .byte  .... /* bytes from Code: part of OOPS dump */
+            .byte  0x44,0x24,0x04,... /* bytes from Code: part of OOPS dump */
 
      Compile it with "gcc -c -o foo.o foo.s" then look at the output of
      "objdump --disassemble foo.o".