From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Documentation <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Cengiz Can" <cengiz@kernel.wtf>,
"Bagas Sanjaya" <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
"Tomas Mudrunka" <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Anselm Schüler" <mail@anselmschueler.com>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] Documentation: sysrq: Rewrite /proc/sysrq-trigger usage
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:41:02 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251023014102.16777-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> (raw)
/proc/sysrq-trigger usage documentation (in "On all" section) states
that it is not recommended to write extra characters to it. The sentence
may imply a contradiction to previous sentence which writes that such
characters are ignored.
Rewrite the description.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7ca05672-dc20-413f-a923-f77ce0a9d307@anselmschueler.com/
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
---
Changes since v2 [1]:
- Keep /proc/sysrq-trigger future API change note (Tomas)
Anselm: Do you object to the rewrite?
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20251016103609.33897-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com/
Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
index 9c7aa817adc72d..a88266b171aa17 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
@@ -75,16 +75,15 @@ On other
submit a patch to be included in this section.
On all
- Write a single character to /proc/sysrq-trigger.
- Only the first character is processed, the rest of the string is
- ignored. However, it is not recommended to write any extra characters
- as the behavior is undefined and might change in the future versions.
- E.g.::
+ Write a single character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. E.g.::
echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
- Alternatively, write multiple characters prepended by underscore.
- This way, all characters will be processed. E.g.::
+ Only the first character is processed; any following characters are
+ ignored for now, which might change in the future.
+
+ Alternatively, to write multiple characters, prepend them with an
+ underscore so that these all will be processed. E.g.::
echo _reisub > /proc/sysrq-trigger
base-commit: 0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8
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2025-10-23 1:41 Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
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