The patch titled Subject: powerpc/xmon/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is powerpc-xmon-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: powerpc/xmon/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key Currently help message of /proc/sysrq-trigger highlight its upper-case characters, like below: SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crash terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) ... this would confuse user trigger sysrq by upper-case character, which is inconsistent with the real lower-case character registed key. This inconsistent help message will also lead more confused when 26 upper-case letters put into use in future. This patch fix powerpc xmon sysrq key: "xmon(x)" Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c~powerpc-xmon-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c~powerpc-xmon-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key +++ a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c @@ -2947,7 +2947,7 @@ static void sysrq_handle_xmon(int key) static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_xmon_op = { .handler = sysrq_handle_xmon, - .help_msg = "Xmon", + .help_msg = "xmon(x)", .action_msg = "Entering xmon", }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jovi.zhangwei@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch printk-tracing-rework-console-tracing.patch relay-remove-unused-function-argument-actor.patch relay-move-fix_size-macro-into-relayc.patch relay-use-macro-page_align-instead-of-fix_size.patch relay-fix-timer-madness.patch kernel-relayc-move-remove_buf_file-inside-relay_close_buf.patch init-kconfig-make-expert-as-config-instead-of-menuconfig.patch kgdb-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch power-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch arm-etm-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch powerpc-xmon-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch spare-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch ethernet-emac-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch documentation-sysrq-fix-inconstistent-help-message-of-sysrq-key.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html