From: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
To: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Patch: add to Documentation/scsi for scsi_dev_flags and command line passing
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:13:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508346789.13599.2.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
Tired of forgetting about this so documented it for others so they also
don't spend unnecessary time figuring this out.
Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt
index 8477655..c9e9ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt
@@ -116,3 +116,9 @@ parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
+
+Additional notes on passing parameters on the command line.
+Its not intuitively obvious how to pass certain parameters on the boot
line.
+For parameters such as scsi_dev_flags, you need to pass to the
scsi_mod as follows
+scsi_mod.dev_flags=LIO-ORG:thin2:0x80000000
+
--
1.8.3.1
next reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-18 17:13 Laurence Oberman [this message]
2017-10-18 17:25 ` Patch: add to Documentation/scsi for scsi_dev_flags and command line passing Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <CAFfF4qua-gutNTT+s+HuxrgS_B8sV5J+8x0-VbrYwObd5mN4bQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-18 17:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-10-18 17:51 ` Laurence Oberman
2017-10-19 0:52 ` Martin K. Petersen
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