Re: [PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:06:44PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Given the equivalent "retain_initrd" boot-time paramater, "keepinitrd"
> appears to be entirely superfluous.

NAK.  "keepinitrd" is what people expect on ARM.

I'm frustrated that whoever invented "retain_initrd" didn't look around
in the documentation to see if there was any existing implementation
first.  The generic implementation should be fixed IMHO, or at least
the option string moved into init/initramfs.c.

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