linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/4] kernel-parameters.txt: Remove elevator argument

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Date:   Sun,  1 Sep 2019 20:29:14 -0300
From:   Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] kernel-parameters.txt: Remove elevator argument

This argument was not being used since the legacy IO path was removed,
when blk-mq was enabled by default. So removed it from the kernel
parameters documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4c1971960afa..6f2bc0e02421 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1197,12 +1197,6 @@
 			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
 			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
 
-	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
-			Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
-			See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
-			Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
-			Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
-
 	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
 			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
 			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
-- 
2.22.0