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| author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> | 2007-10-16 23:29:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 08:42:56 -0700 |
| commit | fac8b209b1084bc85748bd54e13d00c1262b220f (patch) | |
| tree | eae5cd70819f8f3c9b44cfa636051f0f1497266a /Documentation/ramdisk.txt | |
| parent | 1810732e94576ae0d04e953ecaba8c7151c9a287 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fac8b209b1084bc85748bd54e13d00c1262b220f.tar.bz2 | |
Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parm
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated
since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ramdisk.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ramdisk.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/ramdisk.txt index 33e987df071e..6c820baa19a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/ramdisk.txt +++ b/Documentation/ramdisk.txt @@ -31,13 +31,6 @@ To use RAM disk support with your system, run './MAKEDEV ram' from the /dev directory. RAM disks are all major number 1, and start with minor number 0 for /dev/ram0, etc. If used, modern kernels use /dev/ram0 for an initrd. -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. -There are also config symbols (in the Block drivers config menu) for these -variables: BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE defaults to 4096 and BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE -defaults to 1024. - The new RAM disk also has the ability to load compressed RAM disk images, allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or rescue floppy disk. |