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Message-ID: <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> CC: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, 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 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.) -hpa - 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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