linux-kernel - Re: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:03:49 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code

On 6/15/20 5:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series starts to move the early init code away from requiring
> KERNEL_DS to be implicitly set during early startup.  It does so by
> first removing legacy unused cruft, and the switches away the code
> from struct file based APIs to our more usual in-kernel APIs.

Hi,

Would it be possible to get a series diffstat in your patch
cover letters as a regular thing, please?

thanks.
-- 
~Randy