From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:10:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:39964 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023672AbZD2MKQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:10:16 +0100 Received: from verein.lst.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by verein.lst.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id n3TCAFIF014438 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:15 +0200 Received: (from hch@localhost) by verein.lst.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id n3TCAF4R014436; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:15 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:14 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Shane McDonald Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [MIPS] Remove the RAMROOT function for msp71xx Message-ID: <20090429121014.GA14199@lst.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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: 22537 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: hch@lst.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:00:27PM -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. This patch removes > the RAMROOT functionality. > > This patch has been compile-tested against the current HEAD. > > Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald > --- > arch/mips/pmc-sierra/Kconfig | 12 ------ > arch/mips/pmc-sierra/msp71xx/msp_prom.c | 60 +------------------------------ Looks good to me, but now a build of drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-ramroot.c will fail. Given that it's useless now you should probably remove it, too.