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Rob Landley
6e19eded36 initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and
use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic
reasons).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:59:38 -07:00
Masanari Iida
1f8ee46b40 Documentation: Fix Broken URL "freshmeat"
Fix broken URL in documents "freshmeat" to "freecode" in
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt,
Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt
Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-21 11:43:45 +01:00
frans
1838e39214 Trivial Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt fix
A very minor patch on ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt: update the location
where CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE lives in menuconfig

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 11:40:56 -08:00
frans
dd1c53a64a Fix Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
First a file hello.c is created, then the file hello2.c is compiled.
Change this to hello.c

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Denis Cheng
33b1302545 Documentation: fix type error
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 14:50:11 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
1810732e94 docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections
initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs:
- fix typos/spellos/grammar
- clarify RAM disk config location
- correct cpio option

Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Rob Landley
e7b6905582 [PATCH] Initramfs docs update
New section on creating an external initramfs image using cpio (with
script), a warning about bad advice in the cpio man page, a bit of
debugging advice (hello world and rdinit=/bin/sh), and a few minor tweaks
to other parts of it.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
Rob Landley
99aef427e2 [PATCH] update to the initramfs docs
Based on questions people have asked me.  Repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
Rob Landley
7f46a240b0 [PATCH] ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs docs
Docs for ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00