From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756330AbXIBI06 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:26:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbXIBI0s (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:26:48 -0400 Received: from europa.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.75]:33040 "EHLO europa.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753664AbXIBI0r (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:26:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 10:26:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Rob Landley , "Robert P. J. Day" , Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm , bos@serpentine.com, werner@almesberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections In-Reply-To: <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <20070830112055.2b2c8985.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200708301836.48707.rob@landley.net> <46D74797.4070105@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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=" has been changed to > > > > "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The original > > > > "ramdisk=" 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...) > > > > The same objection applies to this as to the previous one. In that respect, > an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture is meaningless > (sorry, Geert.) Of course I ack'ed the m68k part, iff the non-arch-specific part was accepted. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds