From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
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: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- linux-next-20081219.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ linux-next-20081219/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -153,15 +153,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
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.
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
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
@@ -873,17 +874,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
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.
@@ -1078,8 +1081,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
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
@@ -2301,7 +2304,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
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
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