Bug#330403: sysrq: no time for terseness

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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-doc@vger.kernel.org.

Cheers,
        Moritz