* [PATCH] doc: vmcore-dmesg should work on ELF format
@ 2019-11-27 3:12 Pingfan Liu
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From: Pingfan Liu @ 2019-11-27 3:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kexec
User may mistake to run vmcore-dmesg against an kdump format dumpfile, and
fail to get kernel message.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
---
vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
index d9e3c62..dc06909 100644
--- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
+++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written
.\" respectively.
\fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to
standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either
-\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy
+\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a ELF format copy
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.
--
2.7.5
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