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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 - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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