Re: [PATCH][v4] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image

[Bill Davidsen]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:24:41 +0100
> Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@xxxxxxxx> 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?

> 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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