Indeed it was Evolution and then linux-scsi rejected my fix. Trying again, for some reason it thought I had html Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt @@ -116,3 +116,11 @@ parameters may be changed at runtime by the command wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. + +Additional notes on passing parameters on the command line: + +It's not intuitively obvious how to pass certain parameters on the boot line. +For parameters such as scsi_dev_flags, you need to pass to the scsi_mod as +follows. +On kernel line add scsi_mod.dev_flags=LIO-ORG:thin2:0x8000000 + On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/18/17 10:28, Laurence Oberman wrote: >> I just noticed that >> Was taken straight out of git after changing the Doc file. >> Let me see why git did that >> > > It's more likely that Evolution did it. > >> >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> On 10/18/17 10:13, Laurence Oberman wrote: >> > Tired of forgetting about this so documented it for others so they also >> > don't spend unnecessary time figuring this out. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>> >> > >> > diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt >> > b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt >> > index 8477655..c9e9ce8 100644 >> > --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt >> > +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt >> > @@ -116,3 +116,9 @@ parameters may be changed at runtime by the command >> > >> > wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] >> > See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. >> > + >> > +Additional notes on passing parameters on the command line. >> >> line: >> >> > +Its not intuitively obvious how to pass certain parameters on the boot >> >> It's >> >> > line. >> > +For parameters such as scsi_dev_flags, you need to pass to the >> > scsi_mod as follows >> >> as follows: >> >> > +scsi_mod.dev_flags=LIO-ORG:thin2:0x80000000 >> > + >> > -- >> > 1.8.3.1 >> >> >> Also the patch has some weird line breaks. >> >> >> -- >> ~Randy >> >> > > > -- > ~Randy
