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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2006-03-26 04:37:36 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-26 11:56:58 -0500
commit1751ace034bba6b423c1de4668f0e65cc9ef2b84 (patch)
tree3547409d6f919a459e3d79b02ff0903235b31616 /drivers
parent5ff2a7e25ddd648e9096d45cdc5e7d656a8bb0ff (diff)
[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>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/Kconfig15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index e57ac5a43246..875ae7699025 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -400,13 +400,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
400 8192. 400 8192.
401 401
402config BLK_DEV_INITRD 402config BLK_DEV_INITRD
403 bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" 403 bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
404 help 404 help
405 The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader 405 The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
406 (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot 406 boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
407 procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the 407 before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
408 "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> 408 load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
409 for details. 409 etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
410
411 If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
412 also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support.
410 413
411 414
412config CDROM_PKTCDVD 415config CDROM_PKTCDVD