Commit 9acc17ba authored Jul 08, 2020 by Christoph Hellwig

initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated



The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more
flexible and efficient initramfs a long time.  Warn about it being
removed soon.

Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent f0ea68f1

init/do_mounts_initrd.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -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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