From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756007AbZEWJSU (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 05:18:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbZEWJSN (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 05:18:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:41617 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbZEWJSM (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 05:18:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Remove pmcmsp-ramroot.c From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org To: Shane McDonald Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@lst.de, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc St-Jean In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:17:26 +0300 Message-Id: <1243070246.21646.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2009 09:17:29.0255 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B9F0370:01C9DB87] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 09:40 -0600, Shane McDonald wrote: > The RAMROOT function was a successful but non-portable attempt to append > the root filesystem to the end of the kernel image. The preferred and > portable solution is to use an initramfs instead. > > The only user of this function was the msp71xx configuration > in the MIPS architecture; as the use of the RAMROOT has been removed > from that configuration, there are no more users, so this code > can be removed. I've taken this patch to l2-mtd-2.6.git. -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)