Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

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...)

(Also, sorting feature-removal-schedule.txt by date would be really nice.  The 
sucker's gotten huge...)

And while I'm looking at this, is there some other place that entries in this 
file go once they _have_ been removed, so people can see "oh yeah, that went 
away in 2.6.23) when they try to install 2.6.25?  If there is, I missed it.  
Maybe http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/ is good enough, but this seems 
easy to do in Documentation...

Thanks,

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.