From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurence Oberman Subject: Patch: add to Documentation/scsi for scsi_dev_flags and command line passing Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:13:09 -0400 Message-ID: <1508346789.13599.2.camel@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qt0-f196.google.com ([209.85.216.196]:55280 "EHLO mail-qt0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbdJRRNL (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:13:11 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-f196.google.com with SMTP id z19so11146016qtg.11 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 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 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