Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

[Jan Engelhardt]

The /proc/sys/kernel/panic file looked to me like it was something like
/proc/sysrq-trigger -- until I looked into the kernel sources which reveal that
it sets the variable "panic_timeout" in kernel/sched.c.
I'm up for disambiguating this, patch appended.


Signed-off by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

# File:  fixpanicname.diff
# Class: Disambiguation
#
--- linux-2.6.9-rc2/kernel/sysctl.c	2004-10-31 17:10:00.976522528 +0100
+++ modified/kernel/sysctl.c	2004-10-31 17:09:50.970043000 +0100
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= KERN_PANIC,
-		.procname	= "panic",
+		.procname	= "panic_timeout",
 		.data		= &panic_timeout,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
## eof


Jan Engelhardt
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