From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@lst.de, ralf@linux-mips.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Marc St-Jean <stjeanma@pmc-sierra.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1M0HJu-0007HN-7j@localhost>
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 09:40 -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:
> The RAMROOT function was a successful but non-portable attempt to append
> the root filesystem to the end of the kernel image. The preferred and
> portable solution is to use an initramfs instead.
>
> The only user of this function was the msp71xx configuration
> in the MIPS architecture; as the use of the RAMROOT has been removed
> from that configuration, there are no more users, so this code
> can be removed.
I've taken this patch to l2-mtd-2.6.git.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Marc St-Jean <stjeanma@pmc-sierra.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1M0HJu-0007HN-7j@localhost>
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 09:40 -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:
> The RAMROOT function was a successful but non-portable attempt to append
> the root filesystem to the end of the kernel image. The preferred and
> portable solution is to use an initramfs instead.
>
> The only user of this function was the msp71xx configuration
> in the MIPS architecture; as the use of the RAMROOT has been removed
> from that configuration, there are no more users, so this code
> can be removed.
I've taken this patch to l2-mtd-2.6.git.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-23 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-02 15:40 [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c Shane McDonald
2009-05-02 15:40 ` Shane McDonald
2009-05-15 13:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-15 13:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-23 9:17 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-05-23 9:17 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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