Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765962AbXJPIxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759324AbXJPIxQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:53:16 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:43250 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757439AbXJPIxP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:53:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:53:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Nick Piggin cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Christian Borntraeger , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk In-Reply-To: <200710161826.55834.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <200710151028.34407.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200710161807.41157.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710161826.55834.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 21 On Oct 16 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: >> >> 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. > Like I said, I did not see rd_nr in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt so I thought there was no compat. - 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/