[PATCH] doc: vmcore-dmesg should work on ELF format

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User may mistake to run vmcore-dmesg against an kdump format dumpfile, and
fail to get kernel message.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
index d9e3c62..dc06909 100644
--- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
+++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written
 .\" respectively.
 \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to
 standard out.  \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either
-\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy
+\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a ELF format copy
 of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis.  A
 single build of \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP should work against any linux
 vmcore written created on any architecture.
-- 
2.7.5


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