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* kdump: documentation cleanups
@ 2007-10-04  9:42 Pavel Machek
  2007-10-04 10:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Machek @ 2007-10-04  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, bwalle, Andrew Morton


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 <pavel@suse.cz>

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.

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* Re: kdump: documentation cleanups
  2007-10-04  9:42 kdump: documentation cleanups Pavel Machek
@ 2007-10-04 10:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
  2007-10-04 10:06   ` Pavel Machek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2007-10-04 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: linux-kernel, bwalle, Andrew Morton

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:

> -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
                                                                             ^^^

  i thought the recent standard was to use the capitalized form of
"CPU".

rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

http://crashcourse.ca
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* Re: kdump: documentation cleanups
  2007-10-04 10:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
@ 2007-10-04 10:06   ` Pavel Machek
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Machek @ 2007-10-04 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: linux-kernel, bwalle, Andrew Morton

On Thu 2007-10-04 06:04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > -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
>                                                                              ^^^
> 
>   i thought the recent standard was to use the capitalized form of
> "CPU".

But that is something for separate patch :-).
									Pavel
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