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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX index d18ecd827c4..929d9904f74 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ capability.txt - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability) cfq-iosched.txt - CFQ IO scheduler tunables +cmdline-partition.txt + - how to specify block device partitions on kernel command line data-integrity.txt - Block data integrity deadline-iosched.txt diff --git a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt index 2bbf4cc40c3..525b9f6d7fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Embedded device command line partition +Embedded device command line partition parsing ===================================================================== -Read block device partition table from command line. -The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. -It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed +Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line. +It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices. +It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 73d23fdc512..fcbb736d55f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -480,6 +480,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for + embedded devices based on command line input. + See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt + boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to no delay (0). |