From patchwork Fri Jan 22 20:24:49 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Brian Haley X-Patchwork-Id: 43506 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BDDB7CD8 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:25:01 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753793Ab0AVUYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753651Ab0AVUYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:55 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:3495 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116Ab0AVUYy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:54 -0500 Received: from g4t0018.houston.hp.com (g4t0018.houston.hp.com [16.234.32.27]) by g4t0017.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A5F382DA; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [16.1.1.100] (squirrel.fc.hp.com [15.11.146.57]) by g4t0018.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B15910086; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B5A0991.9080701@hp.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:49 -0500 From: Brian Haley Organization: Open Source and Linux Organization User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: greg@enjellic.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with params References: <201001221901.o0MJ1oLk016090@wind.enjellic.com> In-Reply-To: <201001221901.o0MJ1oLk016090@wind.enjellic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Update IPv6 documentation to describe how to set parameters when it's built-into the kernel. Reported by . Signed-off-by: Brian Haley --- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt index 9fd7e21..d52166b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ or modprobe command, but are usually specified in either the /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file, or in a distro-specific configuration file. +For cases where IPv6 is built-into the kernel, you can set these +parameters by specifying them on the kernel command line, for +example, "ipv6.autoconf=0". + The available ipv6 module parameters are listed below. If a parameter is not specified the default value is used.