On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, 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?
sure. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118828410509208&w=2
>
> > > 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?
i'm sure he's objecting to my aforementioned patch.
rday
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