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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 01:18:48 +0100 From: antlists <antlists@...ngman.org.uk> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: 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: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd On 03/07/2020 04:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole >> ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other >> drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956875c2 >> ("brd: remove support for BLKFLSBUF"), so this call is entirely >> pointless now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> > > Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem > like a good candidate for deprecation/removal. > Reading the gentoo mailing list, it seems there's a fair few people who don't use initramfs. I get the impression they don't use initrd either, though. I don't know too much about booting without an initramfs - I switched ages ago - so what is possible and what they're actually doing, I don't know. Cheers, Wol
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