[PATCH] Documentation: mount_api: change kernel log wording

[PATCH] Documentation: mount_api: change kernel log wording

[Randy Dunlap]

Change wording to say that messages are logged to the kernel log
buffer instead of to dmesg. dmesg is just one program that can
print the kernel log buffer.

Fixes: 7d6ab823d646 ("vfs: Update mount API docs")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20201201.orig/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
+++ linux-next-20201201/Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ process the parameters it is given.
      should just be set to lie inside the low-to-high range.
 
      If all is good, true is returned.  If the table is invalid, errors are
-     logged to dmesg and false is returned.
+     logged to the kernel log buffer and false is returned.
 
    * ::
 
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ process the parameters it is given.
 
      This performs some validation checks on a parameter description.  It
      returns true if the description is good and false if it is not.  It will
-     log errors to dmesg if validation fails.
+     log errors to the kernel log buffer if validation fails.
 
    * ::
 

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mount_api: change kernel log wording

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Tue,  1 Dec 2020 17:24:09 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> Change wording to say that messages are logged to the kernel log
> buffer instead of to dmesg. dmesg is just one program that can
> print the kernel log buffer.
> 
> Fixes: 7d6ab823d646 ("vfs: Update mount API docs")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon