Re: 2.4.19pre8aa3

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 16 May 2002 09:59:40 +0100

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


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