From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] initrd: remove half of classic initrd support
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:44:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPh9Tx95Yhm_EkLN@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251021-bannmeile-arkaden-ae2ea9264b85@brauner>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Without Acks or buy-in from other maintainers this is not a change we
> can just do given that a few people already piped up and expressed
> reservations that this would be doable for them.
>
> @Christoph, you marked this as deprecated years ago.
> What's your take on this?
I'd love to see it go obviously. But IIRC we had various users show
up, which speaks against removing it. Maybe the first step would be
a separate config option just for block-based initrd?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-22 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-17 6:09 [PATCH v3 0/3] initrd: remove half of classic initrd support Askar Safin
2025-10-17 6:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters Askar Safin
2025-10-17 6:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc) Askar Safin
2025-10-22 2:16 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-10-22 8:06 ` Askar Safin
2025-10-22 16:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-17 6:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev Askar Safin
2025-10-21 13:05 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] initrd: remove half of classic initrd support Christian Brauner
2025-10-22 6:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-10-22 8:26 ` Askar Safin
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