[PATCH] vmcore-dmesg/man page: Update the vmcore-dmesg man page

Bhupesh Sharma bhsharma at redhat.com
Tue Sep 22 05:02:44 EDT 2020


The vmcore-dmesg utility has been in usage for several years,
and is pretty stable now.

So its useful now to modify its man page to indicate the same.
Also fix some minor formatting issues.

Cc: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma at redhat.com>
---
 vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
index d9e3c62ebcb6..ec594b048a61 100644
--- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
+++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
 .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
 .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
-.TH VMCORE-DMESG 8 "Sep 7, 2010"
+.TH VMCORE-DMESG 8 "Sep 21, 2020"
 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
 .\"
 .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
 .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
 .SH NAME
-vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written
+vmcore-dmesg
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B vmcore-dmesg
 .RI " vmcore"
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written
 .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics,
 .\" respectively.
 \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to
-standard out.  \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either
+standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either
 \fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy
-of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis.  A
+of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis. A
 single build of \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP should work against any linux
 vmcore written created on any architecture.
 
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