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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Rob Landley wrote:
> 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...)

The same objection applies to this as to the previous one.  In that 
respect, an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture is 
meaningless (sorry, Geert.)

	-hpa

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