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Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20251010094047.3111495-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> <20251010094047.3111495-3-safinaskar@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20251010094047.3111495-3-safinaskar@gmail.com> From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:04:33 +0300 X-Gm-Features: AS18NWCvLx5PLZaUkorsbem-B-yR3hlKjw6yF-hbdTFMFmR4Zuzb6EIcT1htWkA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc) To: Askar Safin Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christian Brauner , Al Viro , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Aleksa Sarai , =?UTF-8?Q?Thomas_Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Julian Stecklina , Gao Xiang , Art Nikpal , Andrew Morton , Alexander Graf , Rob Landley , Lennart Poettering , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, initramfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Thorsten Blum , Heiko Carstens , Arnd Bergmann , Dave Young , Christophe Leroy , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Borislav Petkov , Jessica Clarke , Nicolas Schichan , David Disseldorp , patches@lists.linux.dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:42=E2=80=AFPM Askar Safin = wrote: > > Remove linuxrc initrd code path, which was deprecated in 2020. > > Initramfs and (non-initial) RAM disks (i. e. brd) still work. > > Both built-in and bootloader-supplied initramfs still work. > > Non-linuxrc initrd code path (i. e. using /dev/ram as final root > filesystem) still works, but I put deprecation message into it ... > - noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured > + noinitrd [Deprecated,RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any= configured > initial RAM disk. How one is supposed to run this when just having a kernel is enough? At least (ex)colleague of mine was a heavy user of this option for testing kernel builds on the real HW. --=20 With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko