[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on hardware specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.)
Here, we remove some ancient x86 options.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The information here relates to ancient systems
Some (possibly more up to date) info can be found
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
In the specific case of floppy drives: the drivers still
exist, but it's been a while since most of saw these devices
in the wild. So, just refer the reader to the kernel source
file for details. (The detail in this man page was after all
originally drawn from that file.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
See kernel commit a88dc06cd515b3bb9dfa18606e88d0be9a5b6ddd
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
"xattr" is a more meaningful name than "attr" (it resonates
with the names of the system calls), so as long as we are
moving the page to a new section, we'll change the name as well,
and retain an acl(5) link so that old references remain valid.
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
From experimentation, I found a 16kB limit on name + value +
overhead bytes. Digger deeper, I see that
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Unlimited_extended_attributes
says:
Unlimited extended attributes
Not claimed — no patches yet — Not in kernel yet
Currently size of value of an extended attribute must fit into
inline space (~3900 on 4k leaf size), while other filesystems
do not limit the size. Add a new b-tree item to hold the xattr
value in extents.
And reading mkfs.btrfs(8) reveals that the default node (AKA leaf)
size is 16kB.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk