2004-09-24 17:28:43

by Christian Borntraeger

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Subject: [trivial PATCH] correct the comment of the panic function. There is no cache flush

Hi Linus,

this patch fixes the comment of the panic function. After my last patch panic
no longer calls sync to prevent panic from failing on SMP systems.


cheers

Christian

--- 1.16/kernel/panic.c 2004-08-23 10:14:57 +02:00
+++ edited/kernel/panic.c 2004-09-24 19:22:14 +02:00
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
* @fmt: The text string to print
*
* Display a message, then perform cleanups. Functions in the panic
- * notifier list are called after the filesystem cache is flushed (when possible).
+ * notifier list are called without flushing the filesystem cache.
*
* This function never returns.
*/