linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters

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Message-ID: <20200924110619.0339b3cc@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:06:19 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module."
 parameters

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:49:02 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> 
> The command-line parameters "dyndbg" and "async_probe" are not
> parameters for kernel/module.c but instead they are for the
> module that is being loaded. Try to make that distinction in the
> help text.
> 
> OTOH, "module.sig_enforce" is handled as a parameter of kernel/module.c
> so "module." is correct for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon