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

From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:15 -0500

David Miller wrote:
> From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:49 -0500
> 
>> Update IPv6 documentation to describe how to set parameters when it's
>> built-into the kernel.  Reported by <[email-masked]>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
> 
> So are you going to also add a mention of this fact to every single
> place in the documentation that talks about some arbitrary module
> option?
> 
> That doesn't make any sense, and neither does this patch.
> 
> It's better to make it more apparent that module options can
> be set on the kernel command line when something is compiled
> statically into the kernel.
> 
> That way it only needs to be explained in one place, not in
> several.

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?

-Brian