Re: Documentation of module parameters.

[john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>]

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:37:22PM -0300, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:07:56PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> > At 11:30 PM -0400 2001-04-16, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > >I was recently looking for a single location where all the possible
> > >module parameters for the linux kernel was located.
> >
> > Hear him. A DocBook document would be a dandy place for this to get pulled
> > together, too.
> 
> good idea. One could just grab all the MODULE_PARM_DESC out of all sourcefiles,
> look to which module the particular sourcefile belongs (looking into
> Makefile?), and create a Documentation/DocBook/... document out of it.
> 
> Sounds like something doable, only somebody needs to get around doing
> it. Any volunteers?

it sounded like a challenge.  this might help someone who can't be
bothered extracting all the data by hand.  it spits it out in tab
delimited form, as sanely as i could manage in 5 minutes.

j.

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#!/bin/sh

# john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
# Sat Apr 21 03:17:55 EST 2001
# quick and dirty.  run from a kernel source dir somewhere.

find . -name "*.c" | xargs egrep 'MODULE_DESCRIPTION|MODULE_PARM_DESC' \
	| sed '/#undef/d; s/^\.\///; s/[:()]/	/g; s/[";]//g; /MODULE_PARM_DESC/s/,[ ]*/	/; /^[	 ]*$/d'