[PATCH] Documentation: mount_api: change kernel log wording

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Change wording to say that messages are logged to the kernel log
buffer instead of to dmesg. dmesg is just one program that can
print the kernel log buffer.

Fixes: 7d6ab823d646 ("vfs: Update mount API docs")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20201201.orig/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
+++ linux-next-20201201/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ process the parameters it is given.
      should just be set to lie inside the low-to-high range.
 
      If all is good, true is returned.  If the table is invalid, errors are
-     logged to dmesg and false is returned.
+     logged to the kernel log buffer and false is returned.
 
    * ::
 
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ process the parameters it is given.
 
      This performs some validation checks on a parameter description.  It
      returns true if the description is good and false if it is not.  It will
-     log errors to dmesg if validation fails.
+     log errors to the kernel log buffer if validation fails.
 
    * ::
 



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