Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 11:22:29 EST


Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Move the kernel build options abbreviations to the .txt file so that
> they are together instead of one having to go hunt them in the .rst
> file.
>
> Tweak the formatting so that the inclusion of kernel-parameters.txt
> still keeps the whole thing somewhat presentable in the html output too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 97 +-----------------
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

So I applied this, but it's dancing around the real problem: that this
material is split into two files in the first place. I honestly don't
remember why it was done that way - maybe just to ease the RST
transition back in 2016. I think we should really just pull all of
kernel-parameters.txt into the RST file.

jon