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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c
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On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 09:40 -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.
> 
> The only user of this function was the msp71xx configuration
> in the MIPS architecture; as the use of the RAMROOT has been removed
> from that configuration, there are no more users, so this code
> can be removed.

I've taken this patch to l2-mtd-2.6.git.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)