Commit 1751ace0 authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 5ff2a7e2
...@@ -400,13 +400,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE ...@@ -400,13 +400,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
8192. 8192.
config BLK_DEV_INITRD config BLK_DEV_INITRD
bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
help help
The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
(loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
"real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
for details. 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 config CDROM_PKTCDVD
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