Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763873AbXH3Wm6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:42:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763165AbXH3Wmu (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:42:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34488 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763126AbXH3Wmt (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:42:49 -0400 Message-ID: <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm , bos@serpentine.com, werner@almesberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections References: <20070830112055.2b2c8985.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net> 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: 1183 Lines: 32 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=" has been changed to >>> "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The original >>> "ramdisk=" 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/