On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:38:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:57:57AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Below is a patch for 2.6.11-rc2 that makes write-protect detection into a > > > module parameter. Matt Dharm has considered doing this in the past; I > > > don't remember if he came to a final decision. > > > > Is there a place where we can keep all that useful descriptive text? I > > really don't want to throw it away, just to be bombarded by "what's this > > parameter for" questions... > > It can go into a comment, but that wouldn't help very much...
It would be better than nothing.
> I don't know whether it's regarded as good form to have such a long text
> as the contents of a module parameter description. The only other spot
> seems to be in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, which has brief
> descriptions of many (but far from all) available parameters. There's
> also the disadvantage that it's not accessible to people who haven't
> installed the kernel source.
My main goal is to put it someplace that Google can find it. If we can at
least meet that threshold, then we'll save ourselves a lot of trouble.
Alternatively, we leave the configuration option in place, and simply have
that option set the default value of the module parameter. Then, enhance
the help text to mention the parameter.
Matt
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