Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756298AbXITHXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753178AbXITHXJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:23:09 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:46465 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbXITHXI (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:23:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:22:33 +0100 From: Russell King To: "Robert P. J. Day" , Andrew Morton , Michael Neuling Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param. Message-ID: <20070920072233.GA10410@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 20 On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:06:44PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Given the equivalent "retain_initrd" boot-time paramater, "keepinitrd" > appears to be entirely superfluous. NAK. "keepinitrd" is what people expect on ARM. I'm frustrated that whoever invented "retain_initrd" didn't look around in the documentation to see if there was any existing implementation first. The generic implementation should be fixed IMHO, or at least the option string moved into init/initramfs.c. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/