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

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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:23:39 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	arjan@...radead.org
Cc:	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, 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 06:58:16 -0700
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> 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.

That's fine with me.

Now the descriptions of other x86_64 IOMMUs parameters are in
x86_64/boot-options.txt. That's confusing. I just want to clean up it.


> 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.

Yeah, seems that only x86 and m64k have the own kernel parameters
file. I think that it would be better to merge them into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Or splitting
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt cleanly (such as making a
kernel-parameters directory) would be nice too since the file is
huge.
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