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partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 03:10:32 +0000 (14:10 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 03:10:32 +0000 (14:10 +1100)
commit8440bac2130f75c83331b03c83e56325f65971d5
treeea76379b9b5b6de3f8a3caed63374d357b6e0846
parent16d2326efdf8b6dbd839b867f76de2b21cb2d3f5
partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose

The usage of the 'gpt' kernel parameter is twofold: (i) skip any mbr
integrity checks and (ii) enable the backup GPT header to be used in
situations where the primary one is corrupted.  This last "feature" is not
obvious and needs to be properly documented in the kernel-parameters
document.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: "Chandramouleeswaran,Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Murphy <bugzilla@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt