From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751893AbWG0R3x (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751894AbWG0R3w (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:12986 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893AbWG0R3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:44 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Tom Horsley Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt Message-ID: <20060727172944.GJ5687@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Tom Horsley , 7eggert@gmx.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <6DfYt-7zU-49@gated-at.bofh.it> <1154020546.5166.35.camel@tweety> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154020546.5166.35.camel@tweety> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:08 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd > > > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file > > > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope > > > will reduce future confusion for others. > > > > Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better > > explanation: > > I find it easy to believe my document is wrong, but looking at > the Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt file > would never have led me to believe that the initrd.img file > was related in any way. The ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt > file describes the the archive as being built into the > kernel, so it needs updating too I guess (and fedora > should change the name of the initrd files to be > initramfs files so I'll look for documentation in the right > place :-). It's largely kept all the old names for historical reasons. We *could* rename stuff, but then we'd also have to rename the mkinitrd package, the scripts that call it, etc etc for no real gain. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk