Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755022AbYGGOb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:31:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753531AbYGGObV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:31:21 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58982 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752886AbYGGObU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:31:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:31:10 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, mingo@elte.hu, mgross@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: move the descriptions of VT-d to Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt Message-ID: <20080707073110.617c538c@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080707232337W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> References: <20080707171707V.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080707065816.29833aca@infradead.org> <20080707232337W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1711 Lines: 47 On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:23:39 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:58:16 -0700 > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:17:11 +0900 > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > > > Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt is the more appropriate > > > place for the descriptions of the VT-d IOMMU kernel parameters. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori > > > --- > > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 22 > > > ---------------------- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | > > > > > > I disagree. > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt needs to contain ALL of them. > > That's fine with me. > > Now the descriptions of other x86_64 IOMMUs parameters are in > x86_64/boot-options.txt. That's confusing. I just want to clean up it. > > > > It already can deal with some of them being only for some > > architectures, but it really should be the one-stop-shop for kernel > > parameters. > > Yeah, seems that only x86 and m64k have the own kernel parameters > file. I think that it would be better to merge them into > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. I like this alternative; one stop shop is for this information is very valuable -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/