linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c

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Message-Id: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, hch@....de, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marc St-Jean <stjeanma@...-sierra.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 09:40 -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:
> The RAMROOT function was a successful but non-portable attempt to append
> the root filesystem to the end of the kernel image.  The preferred and
> portable solution is to use an initramfs instead.
> 
> The only user of this function was the msp71xx configuration
> in the MIPS architecture; as the use of the RAMROOT has been removed
> from that configuration, there are no more users, so this code
> can be removed.

I've taken this patch to l2-mtd-2.6.git.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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