Andrew Morton wrote:
quoted text > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:24:41 +0100
> Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> wrote:
>
>> Le mercredi 19 mars 2008 __ 13:11 -0700, Randy Dunlap a __crit :
>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:36:07 +0100 Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>>
>>>> This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image.
>>>>
>>>> Original behavior of loop is not modified.
>>>>
>>>> A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be
>>>> able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part".
>>> What happened to the update to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>> that was in v3?
>> Well, perhaps I didn't understand the comment of Andrew:
>>
>> "This shouldn't be needed."
>>
>> I though it means I should remove it. So, Andrew ???
>
> No, given that all module_param() options are available via the boot
> command line when the module is linked into vmlinux, we don't document them
> separately.
>
I totally don't understand this comment, where is the file with the list
of canonical module parameters now? I must have missed the discussion of
why it is changed. And what has the boot command line or linking modules
to do with the documentation file?
quoted text > There should be a way of auto-generating all the documentation for all the
> module parameters from their MODULE_PARM_DESC's. And there probably is,
> but I'm not sure how this is done (?)
>
> (does `make help', fails to spot it).
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