various doc/kernel-parameters fixes
authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:37:40 +0000 (00:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:39:37 +0000 (15:39 -0700)
- tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean
- correct some source file names
- remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree)
- removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index 1156653338fe7baefff9246e50e4724cb8d8e07c..00254c018a25b532585c37c242a5a291d48a96ab 100644 (file)
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ parameter is applicable:
        MDA     MDA console support is enabled.
        MOUSE   Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
        MSI     Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
-       MTD     MTD support is enabled.
+       MTD     MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
        NET     Appropriate network support is enabled.
        NUMA    NUMA support is enabled.
        GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
        NFS     Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
        OSS     OSS sound support is enabled.
-       PV_OPS  A paravirtualized kernel
-       PARIDE  The ParIDE subsystem is enabled.
+       PV_OPS  A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
+       PARIDE  The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
        PARISC  The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
        PCI     PCI bus support is enabled.
        PCMCIA  The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
@@ -123,10 +123,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
 
 
-       53c7xx=         [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers
-                       See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c.
-                       See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt.
-
        acpi=           [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
                        Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
                        Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
@@ -286,7 +282,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
                        APC and your system crashes randomly.
 
-       apic=           [APIC,i386] Change the output verbosity whilst booting
+       apic=           [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+                       Change the output verbosity whilst booting
                        Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
                        Change the amount of debugging information output
                        when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
@@ -775,7 +772,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        See Documentation/nfsroot.txt.
 
        ip2=            [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
-                       See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2.c.
+                       See comment before ip2_setup() in
+                       drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
 
        ips=            [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
                        See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
@@ -871,9 +869,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        if PNPBIOS or ACPI should describe them.  This
                        is for working around firmware defects.
 
-       llsc*=          [IA64] See function print_params() in
-                       arch/ia64/sn/kernel/llsc4.c.
-
        load_ramdisk=   [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
                        See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
 
@@ -1046,7 +1041,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
 
        mtdparts=       [MTD]
-                       See drivers/mtd/cmdline.c.
+                       See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
 
        mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
                        [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates