Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:05:33 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.19 patch] drivers/ide/pci/generic.c: re-add the __setup("all-generic-ide",...) |
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:29:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 18:13 +0200, ysgrifennodd Adrian Bunk: > > > Missing update to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt ? > > > (maybe it's been missing forever?) > > > > It's been missing forever. > > > > I'm not sure whether documenting it now where it's deprecated and nearly > > dead makes sense.. > > Its not dead, its so useful that drivers/ata also supports it
But in the drivers/ata case it's a module parameter, not a __setup kernel parameter.
And I don't think it makes sense to manually add module parameters to kernel-parameters.txt
If a documentation of all module parameters is considered useful, someone should write a script to automatically generate such a list.
cu Adrian
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