> 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.
Sorry about that. I'm happy to change retain_initrd to keep keepinitrd.
I don't think many people are using retain_initrd anyway (other than me
and some people I work with).
Otherwise we can support both for a while with something like (and
Robert's patch)....
From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Make keepinitrd the same as retain_initrd for backwards compatibility
with ARM/AVR32
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
---
init/initramfs.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/init/initramfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/init/initramfs.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/init/initramfs.c
@@ -502,6 +502,13 @@ static int __init retain_initrd_param(ch
}
__setup("retain_initrd", retain_initrd_param);
+/* for backwards compatibility with ARM/AVR32 */
+static int __init keepinitrd_param(char *str)
+{
+ return retain_initrd_param(str);
+}
+__setup("keepinitrd", keepinitrd_param);
+
extern char __initramfs_start[], __initramfs_end[];
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
#include <linux/initrd.h>
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