Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> |
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> Followup to: > <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0212040905230.8842-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net> By author: > "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel >> >> Patch for 'mem=exactmap' in 2.4 was submitted several weeks ago and Alan >> merged it into -ac. It does need to be pushed to Marcelo... >> > > Once again, with feeling... > > DON'T CALL IT mem=. > > mem= is part of the boot protocol. > Call it memmap= or something, or you'll break boot loaders in weird and > subtle ways.
OK, with feeling:
I agree with you since the boot protocol is well-defined.
Just to be clear, my comment was referring to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, not to any C code.
And it would really be helpful to catch issues like this soon after they happen...
Thanks, ~Randy
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