On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > if the goal is to simply put all of the basic boot-time kernel parms
> > along with the module-specific ones into a single file, sorted in
> > alphabetical order, then i contend that this is, in fact, "silly".
>
> Or even, "messy". There's no doubt that it should be maintained
> with care; perhaps it would if the people who write the code for
> each parameter also update the documentation.
or (and here's a wild and crazy idea) what about writing a utility
that auto-generates all that information?
the biggest hassle in keeping all the documentation up to date is
that much of it is being stored in a manually-updated text file
(MAINTAINERS leaps to mind), so *of course* it's always going to be
out of date. so why not just fix it so it's auto-generated, the same
way the in-kernel nano-doc stuff is?
surely, it wouldn't be that hard, at least for the basic parms. a
combination of egrep, sed and sort would certainly give you the basic
parms. off the top of my head:
$ egrep '(__setup|early_param)' $(find . -name *.c) | \
> sed -e 's/.*"\(.*\)".*/\1/' | \
> sort -u
$
of course that's not sufficient, but it took me all of two minutes.
would it be that much work to extend it and deal with once and for
all?
rday
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