Gao Xiang <hsiang...@redhat.com> writes:
> After commit 8341f2f222d7 ("sysrq: Use panic() to force a crash"),
> a crash was not generated by dereferencing a NULL pointer anymore.
>
> Let's update documentation as well to make it less misleading.
>
> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <m...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefa...@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiang...@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
> index 67dfa4c29093..60ce5f5ebab6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
> @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ Command Function
> ``b`` Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or
> unmounting
> your disks.
>
> -``c`` Will perform a system crash by a NULL pointer dereference.
> - A crashdump will be taken if configured.
> +``c`` Will perform a system crash and a crashdump will be taken
> + if configured.
Makes sense. Applied, thanks.
jon
