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* [PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage.
@ 2006-03-25 22:37 H. Peter Anvin
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From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2006-03-25 22:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Christoph Hellwig, pavlas,
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Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index e57ac5a..875ae76 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -400,13 +400,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
 	  8192.
 
 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
-	bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support"
+	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
 	help
-	  The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader
-	  (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot
-	  procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the
-	  "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt>
-	  for details.
+	  The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
+	  boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
+	  before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
+	  load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
+	  etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
+
+	  If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
+	  also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support.
 
 
 config CDROM_PKTCDVD

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