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-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst2
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
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--- a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel. If the syscall functionality is
useful to be used within the kernel, needs to be shared between an old and a
new syscall, or needs to be shared between a syscall and its compatibility
variant, it should be implemented by means of a "helper" function (such as
-``kern_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
+``ksys_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
syscall stub (``sys_xyzzy()``), the compatibility syscall stub
(``compat_sys_xyzzy()``), and/or other kernel code.