Re: [PATCH]: Rewrite of arch/mips/ramdisk/

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> I guess you and many others don't realize the speed of the Linux evolution
> these days.  Between 2.6.10-rc1 and 2.6.10-rc2 there's about 9MB of
> patches.  Even if much of the code is not changing - the halftime for
> patches has reduced quite a bit ...

I'm aware of the speed at which the kernel changes.  What I didn't expect was 
that I picked the one time to try and fix mips embedded ramdisks with a more 
permanent fix at the same time someone else did -- just the someone else had a 
much better idea that applied more globally.  Call it bad timing with a little 
bit of coincidence mixed in.

I'll have to figure out how this CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE works now (it doesn't 
look like the Kconfig bits are in yet, a quick grep only shows mentions in 
defconfigs), and then see how it can replace the older embedded ramdisk idea.


--Kumba

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