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printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmco…
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In one of those comments a typo was fixed, too.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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dgouders authored and torvalds committed Nov 13, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -705,9 +705,9 @@ const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = {

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
/*
* This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo
* This appends the listed symbols to /proc/vmcore
*
* /proc/vmcoreinfo is used by various utiilties, like crash and makedumpfile to
* /proc/vmcore is used by various utilities, like crash and makedumpfile to
* obtain access to symbols that are otherwise very difficult to locate. These
* symbols are specifically used so that utilities can access and extract the
* dmesg log from a vmcore file after a crash.
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