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* [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words
@ 2008-06-24 13:33 WANG Cong
  2008-06-24 23:19 ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: WANG Cong @ 2008-06-24 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: Randy Dunlap, Vivek Goyal, Maneesh Soni


This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>

---
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
 
 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
    no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
-   only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
-   of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
+   only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
+   of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel.
 
 Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
 one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
 at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel
 suitable to his needs.
 
-Following are the configuration setting required for system and
+Following are the configuration settings required for system and
 dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support.
 
 System kernel config options
@@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64:
 	- Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz
 
 
-If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
+If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command
 to load dump-capture kernel.
 
    kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \
    --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \
    --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
 
-If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command
+If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command
 to load dump-capture kernel.
 
    kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel.
 
 Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64.
 It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now
-it should be omitted
+it should be omitted.
 
 Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
 loading dump-capture kernel.
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
 * Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
   mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".
 
-* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
+* We generally don't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
   dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
   kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel.
 

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* Re: [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words
  2008-06-24 13:33 [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words WANG Cong
@ 2008-06-24 23:19 ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2008-06-24 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: WANG Cong; +Cc: LKML, Randy Dunlap, Vivek Goyal, Maneesh Soni

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100 WANG Cong wrote:

> 
> This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in
> Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Thanks.

> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> @@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
>  
>  2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
>     no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
> -   only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
> -   of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
> +   only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
> +   of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel.
>  
>  Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
>  one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
>  at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel
>  suitable to his needs.
>  
> -Following are the configuration setting required for system and
> +Following are the configuration settings required for system and
>  dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support.
>  
>  System kernel config options
> @@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64:
>  	- Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz
>  
>  
> -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
> +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command
>  to load dump-capture kernel.
>  
>     kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \
>     --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \
>     --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
>  
> -If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command
> +If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command
>  to load dump-capture kernel.
>  
>     kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \
> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel.
>  
>  Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64.
>  It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now
> -it should be omitted
> +it should be omitted.
>  
>  Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
>  loading dump-capture kernel.
> @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
>  * Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
>    mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".
>  
> -* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
> +* We generally don't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
>    dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
>    kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel.
>  
> 


---
~Randy
Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

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