[PATCH RESEND 22/62] doc: remove obsolete mentions of pivot_root

Askar Safin
2025-09-13T01:04:05Z

They refer to initrd, which was removed in previous commits

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst | 4 ++--
Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
index 981d6a907699..586bb38d716b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Early creation of mapped devices
It is possible to configure a device-mapper device to act as the root device for
your system in two ways.

-The first is to build an initial ramdisk which boots to a minimal userspace
-which configures the device, then pivot_root(8) in to it.
+The first is to build initramfs which boots to a minimal userspace
+which configures the device, then switches to it.

The second is to create one or more device-mappers using the module parameter
"dm-mod.create=" through the kernel boot command line argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst
index 17aafc610908..ac9cb28776c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ Intel IXDPG425 Development Platform
added. One issue with this board is that the mini-PCI slots only
have the 3.3v line connected, so you can't use a PCI to mini-PCI
adapter with an E100 card. So to NFS root you need to use either
- the CSR or a WiFi card and a ramdisk that BOOTPs and then does
- a pivot_root to NFS.
+ the CSR or a WiFi card and initramfs that BOOTPs and then switches
+ to NFS.

Motorola PrPMC1100 Processor Mezanine Card
http://www.fountainsys.com
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