From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param.
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:22:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920072233.GA10410@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191203460.30041@localhost.localdomain>
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.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 16:06 [PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-20 7:22 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-09-20 8:15 ` Michael Neuling
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