linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: fix removal warning for deprecated initrd loading

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Message-Id: <20241218162827.750d7f4a28c9f8888ec9711a@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:28:27 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Cc: joel.granados@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph
 Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix removal warning for deprecated initrd loading

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:36:38 +0000 Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de> wrote:

> This won't be removed in 2021, no matter how hard we try.
> 

man git-timetravel

> ...
>
> --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(char *root_device_name)
>  	extern char *envp_init[];
>  	int error;
>  
> -	pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in 2021.\n");
> +	pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed soon.\n");
>  
>  	real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
>  	create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);

Well, what's stopping us from removing initrd support?

Maybe the next step is to remove it by default, with a hard-to-find
Kconfig setting to get it back again?