linux-kernel - Re: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2

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Message-ID: <31944685-7627-43BA-B9A2-A4743AFF0AB7@zytor.com>
Date:   Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:32:07 -0700
From:   hpa@...or.com
To:     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: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2

On July 9, 2020 8:17:57 AM PDT, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> 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.
>
>There is no really good tree for this, so if there are no objections
>I'd like to set up a new one for linux-next.
>
>
>Git tree:
>
>    git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git init-user-pointers
>
>Gitweb:
>
>http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/init-user-pointers
>
>
>Changes since v1:
> - add a patch to deprecated "classic" initrd support
>
>Diffstat:
> b/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c |    2 
> b/arch/sh/kernel/setup.c        |    2 
> b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c  |    2 
> b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c  |    2 
> b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c       |    2 
> b/drivers/md/Makefile           |    3 
>b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c    |  239
>++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> b/drivers/md/md.c               |   34 +----
> b/drivers/md/md.h               |   10 +
> b/fs/file.c                     |    7 -
> b/fs/open.c                     |   18 +--
> b/fs/read_write.c               |    2 
> b/fs/readdir.c                  |   11 -
> b/include/linux/initrd.h        |    6 -
> b/include/linux/raid/detect.h   |    8 +
> b/include/linux/syscalls.h      |   16 --
> b/init/Makefile                 |    1 
> b/init/do_mounts.c              |   70 +----------
> b/init/do_mounts.h              |   21 ---
> b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c       |   13 --
> b/init/do_mounts_rd.c           |  102 +++++++----------
> b/init/initramfs.c              |  103 +++++------------
> b/init/main.c                   |   16 +-
> include/linux/raid/md_u.h       |   13 --
> 24 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 452 deletions(-)

I guess I could say something here... ;)
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