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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, 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...)

you know, if it makes everyone happier, why don't i just leave that as
it is and move on?  apparently, i have a different understanding of
the word "deprecated" from a number of others here, and it's really
not worth arguing about anymore.

rday
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