Re: [PATCH] RAMDISK: Remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time param.

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:56:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, walter harms wrote:
> 
> > Robert P. J. Day schrieb:
> > > The "ramdisk" parameter was removed from the defunct rd.c file quite
> > > some time ago, in favour of the more specific "ramdisk_size"
> > > parameter so, for consistency, the same should be done here.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >   the earlier removal was in fac8b209b1084bc85748bd54e13d00c1262b220f.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
> > > index 5f7e64b..4bf8705 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/block/brd.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
> > > @@ -407,12 +407,7 @@ static int __init ramdisk_size(char *str)
> > >  	rd_size = simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
> > >  	return 1;
> > >  }
> > > -static int __init ramdisk_size2(char *str)
> > > -{
> > > -	return ramdisk_size(str);
> > > -}
> > > -__setup("ramdisk=", ramdisk_size);
> > > -__setup("ramdisk_size=", ramdisk_size2);
> > > +__setup("ramdisk_size=", ramdisk_size);
> > >  #endif
> > >
> > >  /*
> > >
> >
> >
> > i do not use this parameter but people will be confused if it suddenly vanish.
> > IMHO it would be better to add something like
> >
> > printk(KERN_ERR "'ramdisk=' will be removed with kernel 2.6.35 ....";
> >
> > pleae note there is a clear kernel number what will put pressure on everyone
> > really to remove the parameter.
> >
> > just my two cents,
> >  wh
> 
>   that deprecated parameter was removed entirely in an earlier patch i
> submitted (see above), and everyone signed off on it.  so it seems
> unlikely to cause major problems to remove it a second time after it
> was re-introduced, but i'll leave that decision to others.

OK, the commit to remove that must have gone in concurently to my
rewrite, because I just copied those parameters.

It probably takes all of a couple of bytes, of init text at that.
But since you'd already got that patch in to remove it completely,
and fixed up the documentation...

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Do you care to send it to Linus?