Re: [PATCH] doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt formatting

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

applied to suspend branch

thanks,
-Len

-- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Spell out "wrt".  I suspect plenty of people won't know
> what that means.
> 
> Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.
> 
> Reformat long lines into shorter lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |   40 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-next-20081219.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ linux-next-20081219/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -153,15 +153,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
>  			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
>  				  old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
> -			See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
> +			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
> +			s3_bios and s3_mode.
>  			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
>  			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
>  			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
>  			used during resume from hibernation.
>  			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
> -			control method, wrt putting devices into low power
> -			states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
> -			used by default).
> +			control method, with respect to putting devices into
> +			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
> +			of _PTS is used by default).
>  			s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
>  			ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
>  
> @@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
>  			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
>  			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
> -	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
> +	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
>  			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
>  			that require a timer override, but don't have
>  			HPET
> @@ -873,17 +874,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
>  
>  	idle=		[X86]
> -			Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
> -			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
> -			of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
> -			run hot. Not recommended.
> -			idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
> -			to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
> -			loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
> -			as idle=poll.
> -			idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
> +			Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
> +			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
> +			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
> +			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
> +			Not recommended.
> +			idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
> +			the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
> +			as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
> +			MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
> +			the same as idle=poll.
> +			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
>  			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
> -			idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
> +			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
>  
>  	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
>  			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
> @@ -1078,8 +1081,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
>  			disabled it.
>  
> -	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
> -			C2 power state.
> +	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer
> +			in C2 power state.
>  
>  	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
>  			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
> @@ -2301,7 +2304,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  
>  	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
>  			-1: disable all passive trip points
> -			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
> +			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
> +			value
>  
>  	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
>  			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
>