Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932581AbXJPIWA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755505AbXJPIVo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:21:44 -0400 Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:41748 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756107AbXJPIVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:21:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Kt12zWz49ONQsTV97avQScuLf327+o7YUbgOrPbotJSeZBaKcE55g1gb7oNJVRsBuCqBzDu/O5n2XpjKl5cQmQEDNKkapiNd+aAYQ+cm41u+R96on1oazL0flu0Vc6i3iqIWvwvvtdWpw+KNGtHmHBWJsnQyYDUK1FfIIvdffyI= ; X-YMail-OSG: wE2gtpMVM1nMFcIF_1SPq34Frq7K2alagBpNlIfAyUli10V8Nia0_X3DXwMbxQocazn_B_C42Q-- From: Nick Piggin To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:26:55 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Christian Borntraeger , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , "Theodore Ts'o" References: <200710151028.34407.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200710161807.41157.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710161826.55834.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1292 Lines: 32 On Tuesday 16 October 2007 18:17, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 16 2007 18:07, Nick Piggin wrote: > >Changed. But it will hopefully just completely replace rd.c, > >so I will probably just rename it to rd.c at some point (and > >change .config options to stay compatible). Unless someone > >sees a problem with that? > > I do not see a problem with keeping brd either. Just doesn't seem to be any point in making it a new and different module, assuming it can support exactly the same semantics. I'm only doing so in these first diffs so that they are easier to read and also easier to do a side by side comparison / builds with the old rd.c > >> It also does not seem needed, since it did not exist before. > >> It should go, you can set the variable with brd.rd_nr=XXX (same > >> goes for ramdisk_size). > > > >But only if it's a module? > > Attributes always work. Try vt.default_red=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 > and you will see. Ah, nice. (I don't use them much!). Still, backward compat I think is needed if we are to replace rd.c. - 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/