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

Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14T19:09:29Z

The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more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");
+
real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);
/* mount initrd on rootfs' /root */
--
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