Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762078AbXHaF4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753592AbXHaF41 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:56:27 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:55561 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbXHaF40 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:56:26 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:41:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Randy Dunlap cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Rob Landley , lkml , akpm , bos@serpentine.com, werner@almesberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections In-Reply-To: <20070830161316.b04f041d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <20070830112055.2b2c8985.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net> <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> <20070830161316.b04f041d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15.527, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INFO_TLD 1.27, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1923 Lines: 53 On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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? sure. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118828410509208&w=2 > > > > 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? i'm sure he's objecting to my aforementioned patch. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/