Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760199AbXJDJn5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:43:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753360AbXJDJnu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:43:50 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:35992 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752509AbXJDJnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:43:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:42:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bwalle@suse.de, Andrew Morton Subject: kdump: documentation cleanups Message-ID: <20071004094206.GA564@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2235 Lines: 55 This cleans up kdump documentation a bit. Plus I do not think we want to mention Linux trademark in _every_ file in documentation.... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek index 2fedc08..faf0e27 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dump of the system kernel's memory needs the system panics). The system kernel's memory image is preserved across the reboot and is accessible to the dump-capture kernel. -You can use common Linux commands, such as cp and scp, to copy the +You can use common commands, such as cp and scp, to copy the memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network to a remote system. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/p This is a symlink to the latest version, which at the time of writing is 20061214, the only release of kexec-tools-testing so far. As other versions -are made released, the older onese will remain available at +are released, the older ones will remain available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/ Note: Latest kexec-tools-testing git tree is available at @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ If die() is called, and it happens to be is called inside interrupt context or die() is called and panic_on_oops is set, the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel. -On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus +On powerpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel. For testing purposes, you can trigger a crash by using "ALT-SysRq-c", @@ -426,9 +426,3 @@ Contact Vivek Goyal (vgoyal@in.ibm.com) Maneesh Soni (maneesh@in.ibm.com) - -Trademark -========= - -Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other -countries, or both. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/