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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2013-10-17 17:04:47 +0300
committerGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2013-10-17 17:41:49 +0300
commit13acfd5715144518232d8e29acf7c76ef1b089d8 (patch)
tree093c4311a737210bbdd3d1919f8193cb5f017241 /Documentation/block
parentd570142674890fe10b3d7d86aa105e3dfce1ddfa (diff)
parent34ec4de42be5006abdd8d0c08b306ffaa64d0d5d (diff)
Powerpc KVM work is based on a commit after rc4.
Merging master into next to satisfy the dependencies. Conflicts: arch/arm/kvm/reset.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
index d18ecd827c4..929d9904f74 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ capability.txt
- Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability)
cfq-iosched.txt
- CFQ IO scheduler tunables
+cmdline-partition.txt
+ - how to specify block device partitions on kernel command line
data-integrity.txt
- Block data integrity
deadline-iosched.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
index 2bbf4cc40c3..525b9f6d7fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Embedded device command line partition
+Embedded device command line partition parsing
=====================================================================
-Read block device partition table from command line.
-The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device.
-It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed
+Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line.
+It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices.
+It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed
by absolute address of data on the block device.
Users can easily change the partition.