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author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-14 16:20:59 -0700 |
commit | 163475fb111cb2f85aef2428a6c1f9eefba8be23 (patch) | |
tree | ad0b494a0d63c9f63b62049b1ebe8d243cb688de /Documentation | |
parent | d310ad0c9d6354affc8abdcfb189ae1a434f18ae (diff) | |
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Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file
Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file.
This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of
kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 128 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt | 139 |
2 files changed, 141 insertions, 126 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 873b680..4956686 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ parameter is applicable: RAM RAM disk support is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. - A lot of drivers has their options described inside of - Documentation/scsi/. + A lot of drivers have their options described inside + the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory. SECURITY Different security models are enabled. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. @@ -284,27 +284,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in kernel's map of available physical RAM. - advansys= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. - agp= [AGP] { off | try_unsupported } off: disable AGP support try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets (may crash computer or cause data corruption) - aha152x= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt. - - aha1542= [HW,SCSI] - Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]] - - aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt. - - aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. - ALSA [HW,ALSA] See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt @@ -368,8 +353,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse - atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI - atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, EzKey and similar keyboards @@ -419,10 +402,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST - BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] - See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function - BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions(). - c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. @@ -671,8 +650,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file dscc4.setup= [NET] - dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] - dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also be switched on/off via @@ -713,8 +690,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file This is desgined to be used in conjunction with the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga - eata= [HW,SCSI] - edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} @@ -770,12 +745,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> See also /Documentation/fault-injection/. - fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. - - fdomain= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c. - floppy= [HW] See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. @@ -835,14 +804,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated debugfs files are removed at module unload time. - gdth= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c. - gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. - gvp11= [HW,SCSI] - hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise. @@ -931,9 +895,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN capability is set. - ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter - See Documentation/mca.txt. - icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] @@ -983,9 +944,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files opened for read by uid=0. - in2000= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. - init= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init @@ -1063,9 +1021,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c. - ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller - See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. - irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -1341,9 +1296,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ltpc= [NET] Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> - mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format: - <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> - machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector (machvec) in a generic kernel. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb @@ -1365,13 +1317,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file be mounted Format: <1-256> - max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. - Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. - - max_report_luns= - [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. - Should be between 1 and 16384. - mcatest= [IA-64] mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception @@ -1568,19 +1513,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card - NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c. - - ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] - netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean @@ -1859,10 +1791,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file OSS [HW,OSS] See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt - osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver - Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold> - See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt. - panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic Format: <timeout> @@ -1895,9 +1823,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] - pas16= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. - pause_on_oops= Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if @@ -2264,30 +2189,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. - scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] - See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. - - scsi_default_dev_flags= - [SCSI] SCSI default device flags - Format: <integer> - - scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model - Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags> - (flags are integer value) - - scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels - See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also - settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level - (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level). - There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the - S390-tools package, available for download at - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html - - scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are - discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, - allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting - user space to do the scan. - security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first security module asking for security registration will be @@ -2321,9 +2222,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, for example 1 means boot CPU only. - sim710= [SCSI,HW] - See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. - simeth= [IA-64] simscsi= @@ -2395,9 +2293,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file spia_pedr= spia_peddr= - st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.) - See Documentation/scsi/st.txt. - stacktrace [FTRACE] Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. @@ -2455,18 +2350,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file switches= [HW,M68k] - sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c. - sysrq_always_enabled [KNL] Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. Useful for debugging. - t128= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c. - tdfx= [HW,DRM] test_suspend= [SUSPEND] @@ -2503,10 +2392,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 0: no polling (default) - tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] - See comment before function dc390_setup() in - drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. - topology= [S390] Format: {off | on} Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu @@ -2547,9 +2432,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt - u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter - See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c. - uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections @@ -2715,12 +2597,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide cursors, 1 will display them. - wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. - - wd7000= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. - watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt or other driver-specific files in the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21e5798 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ + SCSI Kernel Parameters + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for general information on +specifying module parameters. + +This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command +"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable +module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also +reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these +parameters may be changed at runtime by the command +"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}". + + + advansys= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. + + aha152x= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt. + + aha1542= [HW,SCSI] + Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]] + + aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt. + + aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. + + atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI + + BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] + See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function + BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions(). + + dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] + + eata= [HW,SCSI] + + fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. + + fdomain= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c. + + gdth= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c. + + gvp11= [HW,SCSI] + + ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter + See Documentation/mca.txt. + + in2000= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. + + ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller + See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. + + mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format: + <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> + + max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. + Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. + + max_report_luns= + [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. + Should be between 1 and 16384. + + NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c. + + ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] + + nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. + + osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver + Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold> + See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt. + + pas16= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. + + scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] + See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. + + scsi_default_dev_flags= + [SCSI] SCSI default device flags + Format: <integer> + + scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model + Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags> + (flags are integer value) + + scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels + See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also + settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level + (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level). + There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the + S390-tools package, available for download at + http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html + + scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are + discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, + allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting + user space to do the scan. + + sim710= [SCSI,HW] + See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. + + st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.) + See Documentation/scsi/st.txt. + + sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c. + + t128= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c. + + tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] + See comment before function dc390_setup() in + drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. + + u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter + See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c. + + wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. + + wd7000= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. |