From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751793AbZEBE1c (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 00:27:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbZEBE1J (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 00:27:09 -0400 Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:35882 "EHLO rgminet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055AbZEBE1G (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 00:27:06 -0400 Message-ID: <49FBCBC1.3050006@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 21:27:45 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton CC: Jan Engelhardt , Christopher Sylvain Subject: [PATCH] doc: small kernel-parameters updates Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.49FBCB68.0117:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Christopher Sylvain --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lnx-2630-rc4.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ lnx-2630-rc4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ are specified on the kernel command line usbcore.blinkenlights=1 +Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so + log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1 +can also be entered as + log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 + + This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also @@ -345,7 +351,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output @@ -702,7 +708,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB entry later. This parameter enables that. - enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] + enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs (in particular on some ATI chipsets).