From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with params Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4B5A0991.9080701@hp.com> References: <201001221901.o0MJ1oLk016090@wind.enjellic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: greg@enjellic.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:3495 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116Ab0AVUYy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201001221901.o0MJ1oLk016090@wind.enjellic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Update IPv6 documentation to describe how to set parameters when it's built-into the kernel. Reported by . Signed-off-by: Brian Haley --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt index 9fd7e21..d52166b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ or modprobe command, but are usually specified in either the /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file, or in a distro-specific configuration file. +For cases where IPv6 is built-into the kernel, you can set these +parameters by specifying them on the kernel command line, for +example, "ipv6.autoconf=0". + The available ipv6 module parameters are listed below. If a parameter is not specified the default value is used.