On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 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=<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. > > I couldn't find it. Can you provide a pointer to it?
sure. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118828410509208&w=2 > > > > 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.) > > Peter, what are you objecting to, Rob's comment, Robert's comment, > Robert's patch, or my patch? i'm sure he's objecting to my aforementioned patch. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/