linux-kernel - Re: async: make async a command line option for now

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:30:49 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: async: make async a command line option for now

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:02:52 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> 
>> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cdb80f630be5cbc23d82331f24dc4704f75b64f4
>> Commit:     cdb80f630be5cbc23d82331f24dc4704f75b64f4
>> Parent:     b32714ba29358a688ef337d5297bf4bdc9f596dc
>> Author:     Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
>> AuthorDate: Fri Jan 9 13:23:45 2009 -0800
>> Committer:  Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
>> CommitDate: Fri Jan 9 13:23:45 2009 -0800
>>
>>     async: make async a command line option for now
>>     
>>     ... and have it default off.
>>     This does allow people to work with it for testing.
> 
> 
> Is this boot option documented anywhere or did you mean to
> keep it hidden to all but inquiring minds?
> 
> 

for now low visibility is good;
in fact once the feature stabilizes it'll flip the other way around,
at which point it does need to be documented.
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