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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:41:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bos@...pentine.com, werner@...esberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 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. > > I couldn't find it. Can you provide a pointer to it? sure. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118828410509208&w=2 > > > > 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.) > > Peter, what are you objecting to, Rob's comment, Robert's comment, > Robert's patch, or my patch? i'm sure he's objecting to my aforementioned patch. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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