From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bos@serpentine.com, werner@almesberger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net>
Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> The old "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been changed to
>>> "ramdisk_size=<ram_size>" to make it clearer. The original
>>> "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been kept around for compatibility reasons,
>>> but it may be removed in the future.
>> ...
>>
>> i just the other day submitted a patch to remove that backward
>> compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by
>> geert uytterhoeven.
>
> Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt? (People check that for
> warning of upcoming changes that impact existing code. They may not notice
> something elsewhere after they've got it working...)
>
The same objection applies to this as to the previous one. In that
respect, an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture is
meaningless (sorry, Geert.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 18:20 [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections Randy Dunlap
2007-08-30 18:28 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-30 23:36 ` Rob Landley
2007-08-30 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-08-30 23:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-30 23:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-31 5:41 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 5:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-02 8:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-31 7:29 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 14:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-31 14:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-30 19:13 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2007-08-30 23:29 ` Rob Landley
2007-08-31 0:00 ` Jesper Juhl
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