From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 23 May 2009 10:17:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:41584 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022151AbZEWJRx (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 10:17:53 +0100 Received: from vaebh105.NOE.Nokia.com (vaebh105.europe.nokia.com [10.160.244.31]) by mgw-mx09.nokia.com (Switch-3.2.6/Switch-3.2.6) with ESMTP id n4N9HVPv008153; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:17:34 -0500 Received: from vaebh104.NOE.Nokia.com ([10.160.244.30]) by vaebh105.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:29 +0300 Received: from mgw-sa01.ext.nokia.com ([147.243.1.47]) by vaebh104.NOE.Nokia.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:29 +0300 Received: from [172.21.42.232] (esdhcp042232.research.nokia.com [172.21.42.232]) by mgw-sa01.ext.nokia.com (Switch-3.2.6/Switch-3.2.6) with ESMTP id n4N9HQZJ002486; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org To: Shane McDonald 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 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 Message-Id: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2009 09:17:29.0255 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B9F0370:01C9DB87] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 22941 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dedekind@infradead.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134] helo=mgw-mx09.nokia.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1M7nMX-0005hy-EE for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 09:18:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Shane McDonald In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 Message-Id: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Marc St-Jean , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@lst.de Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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)