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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@gouders.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Dirk Gouders 2013-11-12 15:08:54 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 29e9d22559
commit 4c1ace6408
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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.