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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
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Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 09:20:36AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> So I applied this, but it's dancing around the real problem: that this
>> material is split into two files in the first place. I honestly don't
>> remember why it was done that way
>
> I was wondering the same thing.
>
>> - maybe just to ease the RST transition back in 2016. I think we should
>> really just pull all of kernel-parameters.txt into the RST file.
>
> Except the .txt file has its own formatting and if the conversion to .rst
> makes it more unreadable due to the .rst formatting gunk, that would be a step
> in the wrong direction, I'd say.
>
> So including it verbatim as it is done now looks like a good compromise.
> Unless you have a better idea...

What the effect would be of making it all into proper RST is unclear, I
don't think anybody has tried.

But we could certainly just put the whole contents of
kernel-parameters.txt as a literal block within kernel-parameters.rst
and at least have it all in one place.

jon

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