From patchwork Thu Oct 19 14:20:03 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Laurence Oberman X-Patchwork-Id: 10017169 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B5860224 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC0128CEC for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 4009628D7E; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CC628CEC for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754537AbdJSOUH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:20:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47104 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753938AbdJSOUG (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:20:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B56D07EA93 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:06 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com B56D07EA93 Authentication-Results: ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=loberman@redhat.com Received: from loberhel74.redhat.com (ovpn-122-156.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.122.156]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C837C6D6E; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Laurence Oberman To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, loberman@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH] Added notes to scsi-parameters.txt to show how to pass parameters on kernel line Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:20:03 -0400 Message-Id: <1508422803-17361-1-git-send-email-loberman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP --- Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt index 8477655..5b87a11 100644 --- 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 these to the scsi_mod as +the following example for the scsi_dev_flags. + +On kernel line add scsi_mod.dev_flags=LIO-ORG:thin2:0x8000000