Re: Depreciating rdev

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:15:08PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The purpose of rdev is to tune the handful of parameters in the kernel
> image used for self booting ( writing the raw kernel image to a floppy,
> without a filesystem ).  Self booting is no longer supported, so
> shouldn't rdev be marked as depreciated, and not built/installed by
> default, to be removed entirely later?

one year ago:

Util-linux-ng 2.18 Release Notes
================================

The util-linux-ng package does not contain rdev(8), ramsize(8), 
vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) anymore. 


    Karel

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