From 62ee81b5681daa781f5e800346ae8654b3e5a864 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Kitt Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:59:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Stephen Kitt Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 8d3273e..5d29ba5 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -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.:: -- 2.7.4