From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
stable@kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
grim@undead.cc
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of ramfs
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:20:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CE9051.5080803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607312358.29027.a1426z@gawab.com>
Al Boldi wrote:
>>>
>>> Being semantically the same, while not exhibiting ramfs pitfalls, makes
>>> it suitable to be pushed into the -stable tree, IMHO.
>> This is total nonsense.
>
> Are you sure?
>
Yes.
>> They're very different from an implementation standpoint.
>
> Think ext2/3.
Not applicable to this case.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 15:08 [PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of ramfs Al Boldi
2006-07-30 17:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-07-30 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-30 21:03 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-31 19:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-31 14:35 ` Rob Landley
2006-07-30 21:03 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-30 17:51 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-30 21:03 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-31 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-31 20:58 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-31 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-31 19:30 ` Chris Wright
2006-07-31 20:58 ` Al Boldi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=44CE9051.5080803@zytor.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=a1426z@gawab.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=chrisw@sous-sol.org \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=grim@undead.cc \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=stable@kernel.org \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.