Re: [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off"

Len Brown
2009-07-28T19:52:28Z

> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:13:49 pm Len Brown wrote:
> > From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> >
> > "sfi=off" is analogous to "acpi=off"
> >
> > In practice, "sfi=off" isn't likely to be very useful, for
> > 1. SFI is used only when ACPI is not available
> > 2. Today's SFI systems are not legacy PC-compatible
> >
> > ie. "sfi=off" on an ACPI-platform is a NO-OP,
> > and "sfi=off" on an SFI-platform will likely result in boot failure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
> > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> I think the documentation update should be part of the patch
> that changes the functionality, so the doc always matches the
> code.

True.
I was somewhat lazy when i generated this patch series
from as single patch, and split mainly in groups of files.

Re: sfi=off
I'm actually going to delete this one --
perhaps adding it later when/if it does something useful.

thanks,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center