From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6.19 patch] drivers/ide/pci/generic.c: re-add the __setup("all-generic-ide",...) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:05:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20061020210533.GW3502@stusta.de> References: <20061017155934.GC3502@stusta.de> <4534C7A7.7000607@hp.com> <20061018221520.GK3502@stusta.de> <20061018231844.GA16857@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20061019152651.GR3502@stusta.de> <20061019090741.853ea100.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061019161338.GT3502@stusta.de> <1161275398.17335.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:3336 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1946515AbWJTVFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:05:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1161275398.17335.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Randy Dunlap , Alan Cox , Patrick Jefferson , Kenny Graunke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed