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        Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
Date:   Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:45:46 -0300
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The documentation explains the need to create internal syscalls' helpers,
and that they should be called `kern_xyzzy()`. However, the comment at
include/linux/syscall.h says that they should be named as
`ksys_xyzzy()`, and so are all the helpers declared bellow it. Change the
documentation to reflect this.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Fixes: 819671ff849b ("syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel")
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
---
 Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
index a3ecb236576c..61bdaec188ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel.  If the syscall functionality is
 useful to be used within the kernel, needs to be shared between an old and a
 new syscall, or needs to be shared between a syscall and its compatibility
 variant, it should be implemented by means of a "helper" function (such as
-``kern_xyzzy()``).  This kernel function may then be called within the
+``ksys_xyzzy()``).  This kernel function may then be called within the
 syscall stub (``sys_xyzzy()``), the compatibility syscall stub
 (``compat_sys_xyzzy()``), and/or other kernel code.
 
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