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| author | Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> | 2003-04-13 20:33:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com> | 2003-04-13 20:33:44 -0700 |
| commit | cb22f9fc970b76e16c02afa3e0240225461bb31e (patch) | |
| tree | 6febfa226b611ea6c13f1d13aa82ed65de4b0078 /Documentation | |
| parent | 6b38193b2679628cc01a22baa88c2a4c415f4a74 (diff) | |
[PATCH] SCSI tape sysfs and module parameter additions
This contains the following changes:
- export some driver parameters in sysfs
- use new module parameter definitions
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/st.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt index 39f0380b4582..d5a0ac9153bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This file contains brief information about the SCSI tape driver. The driver is currently maintained by Kai Mäkisara (email Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi) -Last modified: Sun Apr 6 22:44:13 2003 by makisara +Last modified: Sat Apr 12 20:26:37 2003 by makisara BASICS @@ -201,11 +201,17 @@ BOOT TIME CONFIGURATION If the driver is compiled into the kernel, the same parameters can be also set using, e.g., the LILO command line. The preferred syntax is -to use the same keywords as when loading the driver as module. If -several parameters are set, the keyword-value pairs are separated with -a comma (no spaces allowed). A colon can be used instead of the equal -mark. The definition is prepended by the string st=. Here is an -example: +is to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended +with 'st.'. For instance, to set the maximum number of scatter/gather +segments, the parameter 'st.max_sg_segs=xx' should be used (xx is the +number of scatter/gather segments). + +For compatibility, the old syntax from early 2.5 and 2.4 kernel +versions is supported. The same keywords can be used as when loading +the driver as module. If several parameters are set, the keyword-value +pairs are separated with a comma (no spaces allowed). A colon can be +used instead of the equal mark. The definition is prepended by the +string st=. Here is an example: st=buffer_kbs:64,write_threhold_kbs:60 |