From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:17:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pD956202C.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.86.32.44]:51493 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:17:54 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAHDHolk023723; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:17:50 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAHDHfPr023722; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:17:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:17:41 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Kumba , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Rewrite of arch/mips/ramdisk/ Message-ID: <20041117131741.GA23041@linux-mips.org> References: <4196FE7C.9040309@gentoo.org> <20041114085202.GA30480@lst.de> <419794FB.6020104@gentoo.org> <4197B286.4060503@gentoo.org> <20041115180507.GA23952@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041115180507.GA23952@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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: 6345 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:05:07PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > You could include a loop-back mountable filesystem image. But that's > not even nessecary. The kernel will call /init of the files in the > initramfs, and you could just store everything you'd store in the > loopback filesystem directly in the initramfs image. Right. So this means CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK and CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK_IMAGE have become obsolete. So unless somebody delivers a convincing argument I'm going to remove these options. Ralf