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This alphabetti spaghetti of boot flags is getting ridiculous, there seems to be no central list anywhere, just random snippets across the web. Why is there not a Linus rant when you really need one? :-(

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To be fair there is a list, although as you say the flags themselves are pretty random. Of course they can't be easily changed because that would break everyone's boot environment.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

lsmod

modinfo ${somemodule}

man lsmod man modinfo

This is elementary level linux, you should know this.

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