Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763926AbXH3XPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758107AbXH3XPc (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:15:32 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:21097 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757015AbXH3XPb (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:15:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:13:16 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Rob Landley , "Robert P. J. Day" , lkml , akpm , bos@serpentine.com, werner@almesberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections Message-Id: <20070830161316.b04f041d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> References: <20070830112055.2b2c8985.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net> <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 41 On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. I couldn't find it. Can you provide a pointer to it? > > 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.) Peter, what are you objecting to, Rob's comment, Robert's comment, Robert's patch, or my patch? Thanks. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - 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/