Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 04:53:27 EST



On Oct 16 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> >> It also does not seem needed, since it did not exist before.
>> >> It should go, you can set the variable with brd.rd_nr=XXX (same
>> >> goes for ramdisk_size).
>> >
>> >But only if it's a module?
>>
>> Attributes always work. Try vt.default_red=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
>> and you will see.
>
>Ah, nice. (I don't use them much!). Still, backward compat I
>think is needed if we are to replace rd.c.
>
Like I said, I did not see rd_nr in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
so I thought there was no compat.
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