linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk

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Date:	Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:23:10 -0700
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, fabf@...net.be, rdunlap@...radead.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:28:49 -0600
Robert Elliott <elliott@....com> wrote:

> The brd driver has never supported the ramdisk_blocksize kernel
> parameter that was in the rd driver it replaced, so remove
> mention of this parameter from comments and Documentation.
> 
> Commit 9db5579be4bb ("rewrite rd") replaced rd with brd, keeping
> a brd_blocksize variable in struct brd_device but never using it.
> 
> Commit a2cba2913c76 ("brd: get rid of unused members from struct
> brd_device") removed the unused variable.

init/do_mounts_rd.c is a bit outside of the normal docs maintainer beat,
but there doesn't seem to be anybody else who should take this either, so
I've applied it to the docs tree.

Thanks,

jon
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