From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765726AbXGZXkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:40:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758103AbXGZXjx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:39:53 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:39675 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758073AbXGZXjw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:39:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:44:29 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: lkml Cc: akpm , tony.luck@intel.com, jejb Subject: [PATCH] various doc/kernel-parameters fixes Message-Id: <20070726164429.f41358d7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap - tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean - correct some source file names - remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree) - removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 ++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- linux-2623-rc1g2.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ linux-2623-rc1g2/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ parameter is applicable: MDA MDA console support is enabled. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). - MTD MTD support is enabled. + MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NUMA NUMA support is enabled. GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. OSS OSS sound support is enabled. - PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel - PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. + PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. + PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. PCI PCI bus support is enabled. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. @@ -122,10 +122,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. - 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers - See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c. - See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt. - acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq } @@ -279,7 +275,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,i386] Change the output verbosity whilst booting + apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. @@ -768,7 +765,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards - See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2.c. + See comment before ip2_setup() in + drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c. ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. @@ -864,9 +862,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. if PNPBIOS or ACPI should describe them. This is for working around firmware defects. - llsc*= [IA64] See function print_params() in - arch/ia64/sn/kernel/llsc4.c. - load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. @@ -1039,7 +1034,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. ,[,,,,] mtdparts= [MTD] - See drivers/mtd/cmdline.c. + See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates