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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:36:18 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> CC: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net>, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][v4] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:24:41 +0100 > Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net> wrote: > >> Le mercredi 19 mars 2008 __ 13:11 -0700, Randy Dunlap a __crit : >>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:36:07 +0100 Laurent Vivier wrote: >>> >>>> This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image. >>>> >>>> Original behavior of loop is not modified. >>>> >>>> A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be >>>> able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part". >>> What happened to the update to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> that was in v3? >> Well, perhaps I didn't understand the comment of Andrew: >> >> "This shouldn't be needed." >> >> I though it means I should remove it. So, Andrew ??? > > No, given that all module_param() options are available via the boot > command line when the module is linked into vmlinux, we don't document them > separately. > I totally don't understand this comment, where is the file with the list of canonical module parameters now? I must have missed the discussion of why it is changed. And what has the boot command line or linking modules to do with the documentation file? > There should be a way of auto-generating all the documentation for all the > module parameters from their MODULE_PARM_DESC's. And there probably is, > but I'm not sure how this is done (?) > > (does `make help', fails to spot it). -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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