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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2006-03-26 01:37:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-26 08:56:58 -0800 |
| commit | 1751ace034bba6b423c1de4668f0e65cc9ef2b84 (patch) | |
| tree | 3547409d6f919a459e3d79b02ff0903235b31616 /drivers/block | |
| parent | 5ff2a7e25ddd648e9096d45cdc5e7d656a8bb0ff (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index e57ac5a4324..875ae769902 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -400,13 +400,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE 8192. config BLK_DEV_INITRD - bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" + bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" help - The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader - (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot - procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the - "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> - for details. + The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the + boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root + before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to + load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, + etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. + + If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this + also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support. config CDROM_PKTCDVD |