From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932521AbWGaU5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:57:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932531AbWGaU5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:57:38 -0400 Received: from [212.76.92.124] ([212.76.92.124]:16400 "EHLO raad.intranet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932272AbWGaU5h (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:57:37 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] initramfs: Allow rootfs to use tmpfs instead of ramfs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:58:41 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, grim@undead.cc References: <200607301808.14299.a1426z@gawab.com> <200607310003.56832.a1426z@gawab.com> <20060731193034.GU2654@sequoia.sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20060731193034.GU2654@sequoia.sous-sol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607312358.41199.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wright wrote: > * Al Boldi (a1426z@gawab.com) wrote: > > Being semantically the same, while not exhibiting ramfs pitfalls, makes > > it suitable to be pushed into the -stable tree, IMHO. > > You are failing to show how this is a critical type bugfix for -stable. > We are picky about -stable additions because we don't want to undermine > the value of the -stable tree. If you mean critical as in "the kernel panics on boot without this patch", then yes, this patch is not critical. But if you think it's important to allow -stable to make full use of rootfs, then this patch offers a much needed fix, by simply replugging existing code. Again, it's your call. Thanks! -- Al