Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

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?

Thanks.
---
~Randy
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