From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [MIPS] Remove the RAMROOT function for msp71xx
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090429121014.GA14199@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LywHr-0006MX-S3@localhost>
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:00:27PM -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:
> The RAMROOT function was a successful but non-portable attempt to append
> the root filesystem to the end of the kernel image. The preferred and
> portable solution is to use an initramfs instead. This patch removes
> the RAMROOT functionality.
>
> This patch has been compile-tested against the current HEAD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/pmc-sierra/Kconfig | 12 ------
> arch/mips/pmc-sierra/msp71xx/msp_prom.c | 60 +------------------------------
Looks good to me, but now a build of drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-ramroot.c
will fail. Given that it's useless now you should probably remove it,
too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-29 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-28 23:00 [MIPS] Remove the RAMROOT function for msp71xx Shane McDonald
2009-04-29 6:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-04-29 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-04-29 14:11 ` Shane McDonald
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