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- Lines: 29
- Date:
Mon May 8 22:00:41 2000
- Orig file:
v2.3.99-pre6/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options
- Orig date:
Wed Feb 16 17:03:51 2000
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.99-pre6/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options
@@ -4,14 +4,13 @@
Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
- 14-DEC-1999
+ 30-APR-2000
-When either CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG or CONFIG_DEVFS_BOOT_OPTIONS are
-enabled, you can pass several boot options to the kernel to control
-devfs behaviour. The boot options are prefixed by "devfs=", and are
-separated by commas. Spaces are not allowed. The syntax looks like
-this:
+When CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is enabled, you can pass several boot options
+to the kernel to debug devfs. The boot options are prefixed by
+"devfs=", and are separated by commas. Spaces are not allowed. The
+syntax looks like this:
devfs=<option1>,<option2>,<option3>
@@ -60,6 +59,8 @@
These control the default behaviour of devfs. The options are:
show show unregistered devices by default
+
+mount mount devfs onto /dev at boot time
nomount do not mount devfs onto /dev at boot time
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