From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 04:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 04:59:46 -0400 Received: from www.deepbluesolutions.co.uk ([212.18.232.186]:2313 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 04:59:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:59:40 +0100 From: Russell King To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre8aa3 Message-ID: <20020516095940.A5912@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020516020134.GC1025@dualathlon.random> <20020516023238.GE1025@dualathlon.random> <20020516093630.B5540@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:36:30AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Have you thought about reading Documentation/initrd.txt and following > the described method? (last modified December 2000 according to the > comments and the mtime on the file). > > The method you're using has therefore been marked "obsolete" for almost > two and a half years: Of course that's one and a half. initrd.txt changed in 2.4.0-test12 to be exact. However, we shouldn't break the old initrd method in 2.4 - that's what 2.5 is for, but ext3 is a new feature introduced after in 2.4.9. So, the question becomes - is it reasonable to expect new features introduced in a stable kernel series to work with obsolete methods that have already been replaced with far better solutions. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html