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Authored by Stefan Richter
Committed by Adrian Bunk
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Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs

Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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  20 +This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
  21 +"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
  22 +module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
  23 +reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
  24 +parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
  25 +"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
  26 +
20 27 The text in square brackets at the beginning of the description states the
21 28 restrictions on the kernel for the said kernel parameter to be valid. The
22 29 restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: