Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:21:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections |
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Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Rob Landley wrote: >>> On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> The old "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been changed to >>>>> "ramdisk_size=<ram_size>" to make it clearer. The original >>>>> "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been kept around for compatibility reasons, >>>>> but it may be removed in the future. >>>> ... >>>> >>>> i just the other day submitted a patch to remove that backward >>>> compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by >>>> geert uytterhoeven. > > I couldn't find it. Can you provide a pointer to it? > >>> Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt? (People check that for >>> warning of upcoming changes that impact existing code. They may not notice >>> something elsewhere after they've got it working...) >>> >> The same objection applies to this as to the previous one. In that >> respect, an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture is >> meaningless (sorry, Geert.) > > Peter, what are you objecting to, Rob's comment, Robert's comment, > Robert's patch, or my patch? >
Robert's patch.
-hpa
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