On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:44:23AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: linux-doc-2.6.12 > Version: 2.6.12-2 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.12/Documentation/sysrq.txt.gz > Tags: upstream > > sysrq.txt.gz should say more about "oom_kill". One doesn't know where > to look to learn more. > > P.S., and please pass this to who is in charge: > > When we try the h command, we get > SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice > powerOff showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount > > How does "Full" correspond to killing hogs? And "kIll" might look like > "klll" on some terminals. > > Anyway, picking from an emergency list is no time to be so cryptic. > The sysadmin is in trouble and he needs to know what each choice is > for clearly. Therefore the help output should be something more like > what one sees with > $ zgrep ^\' $f sysrq.txt.gz
This bug still applies to the current sysrq documentation. Please send your improved documentation suggestions to the Kernel documentation maintainers at linux-...@vger.kernel.org. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org