partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:56:03 +0000 (15:56 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:37:03 +0000 (16:37 -0800)
commit6c5de79ba22bbde9a3cfc7b405140763a7252410
treea42b2e19ee547e6b1b8447c2c6b6765ce8e5574c
parentbdd490ade365b1173485b829e5457af8e16c7f01
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt