+ printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch added to -mm tree

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Subject: + printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch added to -mm tree
To: dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx,joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:53:05 -0800


The patch titled
     Subject: printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch

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From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 kernel/printk/printk.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/printk/printk.c~printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo kernel/printk/printk.c
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c~printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo
+++ a/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.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx are

printkc-comments-should-refer-to-proc-vmcore-instead-of-proc-vmcoreinfo.patch

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