From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752363Ab0I2Kex (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:34:53 -0400 Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl ([130.161.131.5]:35665 "EHLO mailservice.tudelft.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333Ab0I2Kew (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:34:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1474 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:34:52 EDT X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -22.9 Message-ID: <4CA31085.8070507@tudelft.nl> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:10:13 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?w4lyaWMgUGllbA==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100917 Mandriva/3.1.4-1mdv2011.0 (2011.0) Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] support to overwrite DMI board info References: <20100928123639.17046.13090.stgit@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20100928123639.17046.13090.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Op 28-09-10 14:36, Alan Cox schreef: > From: Jiang, Chao > > support to overwrite board vendor/version/name information by editing > /boot/cmdline file. Format example: > board_vendor="XXX company" board_version=DV3.0 > 3 new boot parameters... How about also updating Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to explain what they do without users having to read the git changelog? Cheers, Eric