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author | Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> | 2019-06-27 15:59:38 +0200 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-28 09:06:14 -0600 |
commit | 62ee81b5681daa781f5e800346ae8654b3e5a864 (patch) | |
tree | 1f2be89c85274925d1f99f0c2dbc0c43dfd6cd34 /Documentation | |
parent | 9159ba14285c5432063a0ad83e50afb95674d9b1 (diff) | |
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docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to
indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as
an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code,
"``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 8d3273e32eb1..5d29ba5ad88c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known. -The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--"; +The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "``--``"; if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init. -Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init. +Everything after "``--``" is passed as an argument to init. Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:: |