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From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:30:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E7F816.9080806@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709120904130.20693@localhost.localdomain>

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> p.s.  by "basic", i mean those boot-time parms defined by either
> "__setup()" or "early_param()".  which means that module writers
> should, as much as possible, stop using those macros to define
> command-line parameters for their modules.  that would go a long way
> to restoring some order, and allowing for some decent and readable
> documentation.

Are you forgetting that modules can often be compiled into the bzImage, 
too, making them genuine boot-time params?

Rogan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12  7:50 Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-12 12:43 ` David Newall
2007-09-12 13:11   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-12 13:32     ` David Newall
2007-09-12 14:06       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-12 14:30     ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2007-09-12 14:44       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-12 17:47         ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-12 17:56           ` Randy Dunlap

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