From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E83C33C9E for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6862077C for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:23:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1579490603; bh=MKn5Cznp3PMqaBXd9TGds8qNk4W8AABAuCaIwfqDjj8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=JEiXrsIixYyQokgBifxIKZuhqbNQMJ4af2S5YUAwZXwIRttisNQEEBvD2ZYqLhOud 6riSEDZRBP/J60nFlOSq+NM9PLAqBLYT1EI8IwED1w3Bv1cZYv1GEewBK3tMMEXzEr qjcIQTZ1Pi5R5iCtRb/pYTQjbayOfEwYe9Q7xO20= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729122AbgATDXT (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:23:19 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52470 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728949AbgATDXT (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:23:19 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (NE2965lan1.rev.em-net.ne.jp [210.141.244.193]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 842F02073D; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:23:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1579490598; bh=MKn5Cznp3PMqaBXd9TGds8qNk4W8AABAuCaIwfqDjj8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=qKLD7kVDum2dkbQys+xNuSdNm1AXY+9DeSYpNJ45uC17+iM4s0Y8v4CLCQl2c1iJN bIIBvSXLaN6QDVSmpVM65TiYZqSBc5H33knX6AVTlKDhT10HK2nBUPJLknAkr+b2lN 3v0uzeVuh9F/pmwJjskxpmvQsvSUt7XuszldYTqY= From: Masami Hiramatsu To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar , Randy Dunlap , Frank Rowand , Namhyung Kim , Tim Bird , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Tom Zanussi , Rob Herring , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexey Dobriyan , Jonathan Corbet , Linus Torvalds , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: bootconfig: Fix typos in bootconfig documentation Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:23:12 +0900 Message-Id: <157949059219.25888.16939971423610233631.stgit@devnote2> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <157949056842.25888.12912764773767908046.stgit@devnote2> References: <157949056842.25888.12912764773767908046.stgit@devnote2> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Fix typos in bootconfig.rst according to Randy's suggestions. Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu --- Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst index c8f7cd4cf44e..4d617693c0c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst @@ -11,20 +11,22 @@ Boot Configuration Overview ======== -The boot configuration is expanding current kernel cmdline to support -additional key-value data when boot the kernel in an efficient way. -This allows adoministrators to pass a structured-Key config file. +The boot configuration expands the current kernel command line to support +additional key-value data when booting the kernel in an efficient way. +This allows administrators to pass a structured-Key config file. Config File Syntax ================== The boot config syntax is a simple structured key-value. Each key consists -of dot-connected-words, and key and value are connected by "=". The value +of dot-connected-words, and key and value are connected by ``=``. The value has to be terminated by semi-colon (``;``) or newline (``\n``). For array value, array entries are separated by comma (``,``). :: KEY[.WORD[...]] = VALUE[, VALUE2[...]][;] +Unlike the kernel command line syntax, spaces are OK around the comma and ``=``. + Each key word must contain only alphabets, numbers, dash (``-``) or underscore (``_``). And each value only contains printable characters or spaces except for delimiters such as semi-colon (``;``), new-line (``\n``), comma (``,``), @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ quotes (``"VALUE"``) or single-quotes (``'VALUE'``) to quote it. Note that you can not escape these quotes. There can be a key which doesn't have value or has an empty value. Those keys -are used for checking the key exists or not (like a boolean). +are used for checking if the key exists or not (like a boolean). Key-Value Syntax ---------------- @@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ at boot time. So you can append similar trees or key-values. Comments -------- -The config syntax accepts shell-script style comments. The comments start +The config syntax accepts shell-script style comments. The comments starting with hash ("#") until newline ("\n") will be ignored. :: @@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ update the boot loader and the kernel image itself. To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file -to/from initrd image. You can build it by follwoing command:: +to/from initrd image. You can build it by the following command:: # make -C tools/bootconfig @@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ To remove the config from the image, you can use -d option as below:: # tools/bootconfig/bootconfig -d /boot/initrd.img-X.Y.Z -C onfig File Limitation +Config File Limitation ====================== Currently the maximum config size size is 32KB and the total key-words (not @@ -145,10 +147,10 @@ User can query or loop on key-value pairs, also it is possible to find a root (prefix) key node and find key-values under that node. If you have a key string, you can query the value directly with the key -using xbc_find_value(). If you want to know what keys exist in the SKC -tree, you can use xbc_for_each_key_value() to iterate key-value pairs. +using xbc_find_value(). If you want to know what keys exist in the boot +config, you can use xbc_for_each_key_value() to iterate key-value pairs. Note that you need to use xbc_array_for_each_value() for accessing -each arraies value, e.g.:: +each array's value, e.g.:: vnode = NULL; xbc_find_value("key.word", &vnode); @@ -157,8 +159,8 @@ each arraies value, e.g.:: printk("%s ", value); } -If you want to focus on keys which has a prefix string, you can use -xbc_find_node() to find a node which prefix key words, and iterate +If you want to focus on keys which have a prefix string, you can use +xbc_find_node() to find a node by the prefix string, and iterate keys under the prefix node with xbc_node_for_each_key_value(). But the most typical usage is to get the named value under prefix @@ -174,8 +176,8 @@ or get the named array under prefix as below:: This accesses a value of "key.prefix.option" and an array of "key.prefix.array-option". -Locking is not needed, since after initialized, the config becomes readonly. -All data and keys must be copied if you need to modify it. +Locking is not needed, since after initialization, the config becomes +read-only. All data and keys must be copied if you need to modify it. Functions and structures