linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: move the descriptions of VT-d to Documentations/x86/x86

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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:58:16 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, mgross@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: move the descriptions of VT-d to
 Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:17:11 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt is the more appropriate
> place for the descriptions of the VT-d IOMMU kernel parameters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt       |   22
> ---------------------- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |


I disagree.
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt needs to contain ALL of them.
It already can deal with some of them being only for some
architectures, but it really should be the one-stop-shop for kernel
parameters.


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