Re: [PATCH 14/23] initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated

Thomas Weißschuh
2024-09-04T18:49:04Z

Hi,

On 2020-07-14 21:04:18+0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more
> flexible and efficient initramfs a long time. Warn about it being
> removed soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> index 57ad5b2da8f5f5..e08669187d63be 100644
> --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
> extern char *envp_init[];
> int error;
>
> + pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in 2021.\n");
> +

I stumbled upon this today.
Apparently the "soon" never happened in 2021.

If this is still meant to happen I can send a series to remove it.

> real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
> create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);
> /* mount initrd on rootfs' /root */
> --
> 2.27.0