linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:44 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@...r.com>
Cc:	7eggert@....de,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
 > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:08 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
 > > > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd
 > > > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file
 > > > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope
 > > > will reduce future confusion for others.
 > > 
 > > Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better
 > > explanation:
 > 
 > I find it easy to believe my document is wrong, but looking at
 > the Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt file
 > would never have led me to believe that the initrd.img file
 > was related in any way. The ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
 > file describes the the archive as being built into the
 > kernel, so it needs updating too I guess (and fedora
 > should change the name of the initrd files to be
 > initramfs files so I'll look for documentation in the right
 > place :-).

It's largely kept all the old names for historical reasons.
We *could* rename stuff, but then we'd also have to rename
the mkinitrd package, the scripts that call it, etc etc
for no real gain.

		Dave

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