Re: [PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param.

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 03:23:19 EST


On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:06:44PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Given the equivalent "retain_initrd" boot-time paramater, "keepinitrd"
> appears to be entirely superfluous.

NAK. "keepinitrd" is what people expect on ARM.

I'm frustrated that whoever invented "retain_initrd" didn't look around
in the documentation to see if there was any existing implementation
first. The generic implementation should be fixed IMHO, or at least
the option string moved into init/initramfs.c.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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