From: Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.2-pre2 forces ramfs on
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:20:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011226122044.A7125@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0bj07$18l$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <E16JFbk-00028a-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16JFbk-00028a-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:04:40PM +0000
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:04:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Because it's small, and if it wasn't there, we'd have to have the small
> > "rootfs" anyway (which basically duplicated ramfs functionality).
>
> Can ramfs=N longer term actually come back to be "use __init for the RAM
> fs functions". That would seem to address any space issues even the most
> embedded fanatic has.
Nifty idea... We could use __rootfs or similar in the module.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-26 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-26 3:41 Keith Owens
2001-12-26 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-26 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-26 17:20 ` Legacy Fishtank [this message]
2001-12-26 17:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-26 17:52 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-27 10:39 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-05 22:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-26 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-26 4:26 ` Alexander Viro
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