Commit 62ee81b5 authored by Stephen Kitt's avatar Stephen Kitt Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarStephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 9159ba14
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@@ -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.::