Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

From: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh_at_linux01.gwdg.de)
Date: 10/31/04

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    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@linux01.gwdg.de>

    # 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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