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SubjectRe: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections
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...)
>

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.)

-hpa

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