Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937843AbWLGAiG (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:38:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937844AbWLGAiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:38:05 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:45337 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937843AbWLGAiD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:38:03 -0500 Message-ID: <4577624A.6010008@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:37:30 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Michael Neuling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , fastboot@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] free initrds boot option References: <4410.1165450723@neuling.org> <20061206163021.f434f09b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061206163021.f434f09b.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'd have thought that an option `retain_initrd' would make more sense. > > Please always update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt when adding boot > options. > I would have to agree with this; it also seems a bit odd to me to have this at all (kexec provides a new kernel image, surely it also provides a new initrd image???) -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/