netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with params

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Message-Id: <20100125134301.e4849520.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:43:01 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, greg@...ellic.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help
 with params

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:31:33 -0800
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:21:42 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
> >> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:15 -0500
> >> 
> >> > I guess Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt is where such things
> >> > live, can I send you a patch for that or does it need to go
> >> > through someone else?
> >> 
> >> I think lkml is a suitable place to submit something like
> >> that.
> >> --
> > 
> > Sure, but if it's networking parameters, you (David) could still merge it...
> 
> It's not about networking parameters.

OK, I didn't see the patch itself, sorry.


> It's about adding a generic mention somewhere central that you can set
> "module parameters" on the kernel command line when a module is built
> statically into the kernel.

Maybe like this, from that same file:

Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
'.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:

	usbcore.blinkenlights=1



I'll search for the patch...

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~Randy
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