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Message-ID: <20061020210533.GW3502@stusta.de>
Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:05:33 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>,
	Patrick Jefferson <henj@...com>,
	Kenny Graunke <kenny@...tecape.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.19 patch] drivers/ide/pci/generic.c: re-add the __setup("all-generic-ide",...)

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:29:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 18:13 +0200, ysgrifennodd Adrian Bunk:
> > > Missing update to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt ?
> > > (maybe it's been missing forever?)
> > 
> > It's been missing forever.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether documenting it now where it's deprecated and nearly 
> > dead makes sense..
> 
> Its not dead, its so useful that drivers/ata also supports it

But in the drivers/ata case it's a module parameter, not a __setup 
kernel parameter.

And I don't think it makes sense to manually add module parameters to 
kernel-parameters.txt

If a documentation of all module parameters is considered useful, 
someone should write a script to automatically generate such a list.

cu
Adrian

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