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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

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