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Merge branch 'doc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

Pull documentation updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "I am currently relaying documentation patches through 'doc' branch of
  trivial tree, until Rob, the new documentation maintainer, has
  established a proper tree."

* 'doc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  doc: ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default
  Documentation/initrd.txt: Change the location of util-linux
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: remove autotest and mcatest
Linus Torvalds 13 years ago
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Documentation/SubmittingPatches

@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch.
 
 Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine
 if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with
-an assigned maintainer.  If so, e-mail that person.
+an assigned maintainer.  If so, e-mail that person.  The script
+scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step.
 
 If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send
 your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list,

+ 2 - 2
Documentation/initrd.txt

@@ -362,5 +362,5 @@ Resources
     http://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers/ols2k-9.ps.gz
 [2] newlib package (experimental), with initrd example
     http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/
-[3] Brouwer, Andries; "util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux"
-    ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/util-linux/
+[3] util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux
+    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

+ 0 - 4
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -397,8 +397,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
 			Use software keyboard repeat
 
-	autotest	[IA-64]
-
 	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
 			Format: <io>,<mode>
 
@@ -1453,8 +1451,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			devices can be requested on-demand with the
 			/dev/loop-control interface.
 
-	mcatest=	[IA-64]
-
 	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
 
 	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt