From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with params Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4B5DD4AF.8050800@hp.com> References: <201001221901.o0MJ1oLk016090@wind.enjellic.com> <4B5A0991.9080701@hp.com> <20100122.183223.197255353.davem@davemloft.net> 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 g4t0014.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.17]:6013 "EHLO g4t0014.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226Ab0AYR2Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100122.183223.197255353.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > From: Brian Haley > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:49 -0500 > >> Update IPv6 documentation to describe how to set parameters when it's >> built-into the kernel. Reported by . >> >> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley > > So are you going to also add a mention of this fact to every single > place in the documentation that talks about some arbitrary module > option? > > That doesn't make any sense, and neither does this patch. > > It's better to make it more apparent that module options can > be set on the kernel command line when something is compiled > statically into the kernel. > > That way it only needs to be explained in one place, not in > several. I guess Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt is where such things live, can I send you a patch for that or does it need to go through someone else? -Brian