From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
fastboot@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] free initrds boot option
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:37:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4577624A.6010008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061206163021.f434f09b.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> I'd have thought that an option `retain_initrd' would make more sense.
>
> Please always update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt when adding boot
> options.
>
I would have to agree with this; it also seems a bit odd to me to have
this at all (kexec provides a new kernel image, surely it also provides
a new initrd image???)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-07 0:18 [PATCH] free initrds boot option Michael Neuling
2006-12-07 0:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-07 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-12-07 3:36 ` Michael Neuling
2006-12-07 16:47 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-12-07 21:40 ` Haren Myneni
2006-12-07 23:32 ` Michael Neuling
2006-12-13 1:35 ` [Fastboot] " Horms
2007-02-08 12:35 ` Horms
2007-02-08 22:58 ` Michael Neuling
2006-12-07 3:56 ` Haren Myneni
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-07 3:42 Michael Neuling
2006-12-07 5:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-07 5:14 ` Randy Dunlap
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