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Commit ada9cfdd authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Len Brown
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doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt formatting 



Spell out "wrt".  I suspect plenty of people won't know
what that means.

Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.

Reformat long lines into shorter lines.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
parent baa5835d

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -151,15 +151,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options

			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,

				  old_ordering, s4_nonvs }

			See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.

			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on

			s3_bios and s3_mode.

			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep

			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.

			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being

			used during resume from hibernation.

			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS

			control method, wrt putting devices into low power

			states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is

			used by default).

			control method, with respect to putting devices into

			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering

			of _PTS is used by default).

			s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the

			ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]

			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.

			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.

	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}

	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]

			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards

			that require a timer override, but don't have

			HPET
@@ -860,17 +861,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.



	idle=		[X86]

			Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait

			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance

			of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system

			run hot. Not recommended.

			idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose

			to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle

			loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same

			as idle=poll.

			idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.

			Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait

			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly

			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but

			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.

			Not recommended.

			idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but

			the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save

			as much power as a normal idle loop, use the

			MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be

			the same as idle=poll.

			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.

			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.

			idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states

			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states



	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem

			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
@@ -1052,8 +1055,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 
	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS

			disabled it.



	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in

			C2 power state.

	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer

			in C2 power state.



	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control

			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
@@ -2241,7 +2244,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 


	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]

			-1: disable all passive trip points

			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value

			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this

			value



	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]

			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate