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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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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