[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 303/727] Got rid of the Specifying Module Parameters section.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:50:05 UTC 2010


commit b5bb911b7d3db27372b0e0f0cdf9d54dc77496e5
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 10 13:07:26 2010 +0200

    Got rid of the Specifying Module Parameters section.
    
    Its content has been moved to the Loading a Module subsection instead,
    that is, right where it logically belongs.

 en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml |   42 +++++++++++++++------------------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml b/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
index 0c721f2..7f88202 100644
--- a/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
+++ b/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
@@ -148,6 +148,25 @@ insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-54.el6.i686/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko</screen>
         <title>Important: Do Not Use <command>insmod</command> Directly</title>
         <para>Although the <command>/sbin/insmod</command> command can also be used to load kernel modules, it does not resolve dependencies. Because of this, you should always use <command>modprobe</command> instead.</para>
       </important>
+      <indexterm>
+        <primary>kernel module</primary>
+        <secondary>module parameters</secondary>
+        <tertiary>specifying</tertiary>
+      </indexterm>
+      <indexterm>
+        <primary>module parameters</primary>
+        <see>kernel module</see>
+      </indexterm>
+      <indexterm>
+        <primary>kernel module</primary>
+        <secondary>module parameters</secondary>
+        <tertiary>supplying</tertiary>
+      </indexterm>
+      <para>In some situations, it may be desirable to customize the module behavior by supplying additional parameters to it. To do so, use the <command>modprobe</command>command in the following form:</para>
+      <screen><command>/sbin/modprobe <replaceable>&lt;module&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;parameter&gt;</replaceable>...</command></screen>
+      <para>For example, to allow bad eeprom checksums and set the debug level to maximum for an Intel Ether Express/100 driver, type:</para>
+      <screen>~]#&#160;<command>/sbin/modprobe e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1 debug=16</command></screen>
+      <para>Note that when a module parameter expects comma-separated values, you should <emphasis>not</emphasis> use speces after the commas. For a list of common module parameters, see <xref linkend="tb-modules-scsiparameters" /> and <xref linkend="tb-modules-ethernet" />.</para>
     </section>
     <section
       id="s2-kernel-module-utils-rmmod">
@@ -267,29 +286,6 @@ fi</programlisting>
     </note>
   </section>
   <section
-    id="s1-modules-parameters-specifying">
-    <title>Specifying Module Parameters</title>
-    <indexterm>
-      <primary>kernel module</primary>
-      <secondary>module parameters</secondary>
-      <tertiary>specifying</tertiary>
-    </indexterm>
-    <indexterm>
-      <primary>module parameters</primary>
-      <see>kernel module</see>
-    </indexterm>
-    <indexterm>
-      <primary>kernel module</primary>
-      <secondary>module parameters</secondary>
-      <tertiary>supplying</tertiary>
-    </indexterm>
-    <para>In some situations, it may be desirable to customize the module behavior by supplying additional parameters to it. To do so, use the <command>modprobe</command>command in the following form:</para>
-    <screen><command>/sbin/modprobe <replaceable>&lt;module&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;parameter&gt;</replaceable>...</command></screen>
-    <para>For example, to allow bad eeprom checksums and set the debug level to maximum for an Intel Ether Express/100 driver, type:</para>
-    <screen>~]#&#160;<command>/sbin/modprobe e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1 debug=16</command></screen>
-    <para>Note that when a module parameter expects comma-separated values, you should <emphasis>not</emphasis> use speces after the commas. For a list of common module parameters, see <xref linkend="tb-modules-scsiparameters" /> and <xref linkend="tb-modules-ethernet" />.</para>
-  </section>
-  <section
     id="s1-modules-scsi">
     <title>Storage Parameters</title>
     <indexterm>


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