Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:31:10 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: move the descriptions of VT-d to Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:23:39 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:58:16 -0700 > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:17:11 +0900 > > FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > > > > > Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt is the more appropriate > > > place for the descriptions of the VT-d IOMMU kernel parameters. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> > > > --- > > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 22 > > > ---------------------- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | > > > > > > I disagree. > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt needs to contain ALL of them. > > That's fine with me. > > Now the descriptions of other x86_64 IOMMUs parameters are in > x86_64/boot-options.txt. That's confusing. I just want to clean up it. > > > > It already can deal with some of them being only for some > > architectures, but it really should be the one-stop-shop for kernel > > parameters. > > Yeah, seems that only x86 and m64k have the own kernel parameters > file. I think that it would be better to merge them into > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
I like this alternative; one stop shop is for this information is very valuable
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