From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: additional info for kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:22:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FB2FCB.5010303@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905011909440.7409@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> [Cc: linux-kernel]
>
> On Friday 2009-04-24 01:31, Christopher Sylvain wrote:
>
>> a while ago you invited patches to kernel-parameters.txt when someone said
>> they were
>> unhappy with a reference to a source file instead of listing the actual
>> parameters.
>
> [1] possibly http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/185
>
>
>> instead of a patch, how about simply adding:
>> -----
>>
>> (We allow underscores for compatibility with the modules code)
>> apm=on/off enable/disable APM
>> [no-]allow[-_]ints allow interrupts during BIOS calls
>> [no-]broken[-_]psr BIOS has a broken GetPowerStatus call
>> [no-]realmode[-_]power[-_]off switch to real mode before powering off
>> [no-]debug log some debugging messages
>> [no-]power[-_]off power off on shutdown
>> [no-]smp Use apm even on an SMP box
>> bounce[-_]interval=<n> number of ticks to ignore suspend bounces
>> idle[-_]threshold=<n> System idle percentage above which to make APM BIOS
>> idle calls. Set it to 100 to disable.
>> idle[-_]period=<n> Period (in 1/100s of a second) over which the idle
>> percentage is calculated.
>>
>> see /linux/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c for some additional information
>
> Saying "we allow underscores" is enough, I would not clutter the
> textfile with [-_].
Agreed. This is what kernel/params.c says:
/* Hyphens and underscores equivalent in parameter names. */
>> -----
>>
>> to the entry for [APM] ?
--
~Randy
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2009-05-01 17:10 ` additional info for kernel-parameters.txt Jan Engelhardt
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