Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 01:47:34 EST


On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > The old "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been changed to
> > > > "ramdisk_size=<ram_size>" to make it clearer. The original
> > > > "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been kept around for compatibility reasons,
> > > > but it may be removed in the future.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > i just the other day submitted a patch to remove that backward
> > > compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by
> > > geert uytterhoeven.
> >
> > Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt? (People
> > check that for warning of upcoming changes that impact existing
> > code. They may not notice something elsewhere after they've got
> > it working...)
> >
>
> The same objection applies to this as to the previous one. In that
> respect, an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture
> is meaningless (sorry, Geert.)

fair enough, but since i posted that patch to LKML three days ago,
someone *could* have NAKed it at the time.

rday
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