From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:53:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk In-Reply-To: <200710161826.55834.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <200710151028.34407.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200710161807.41157.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710161826.55834.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Christian Borntraeger , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , Theodore Ts'o List-ID: On Oct 16 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: >> >> It also does not seem needed, since it did not exist before. >> >> It should go, you can set the variable with brd.rd_nr=XXX (same >> >> goes for ramdisk_size). >> > >> >But only if it's a module? >> >> Attributes always work. Try vt.default_red=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 >> and you will see. > >Ah, nice. (I don't use them much!). Still, backward compat I >think is needed if we are to replace rd.c. > Like I said, I did not see rd_nr in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt so I thought there was no compat. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org