linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt

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Message-ID: <5c3c4233-3572-4842-850e-0a88ce16eee3@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:44:23 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Askar Safin <safinaskar@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and
 "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters



On 11/19/25 2:24 PM, Askar Safin wrote:
> ...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in
> 6b99e6e6aa62 ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of
> "rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c86c ("initrd: remove
> support for multiple floppies") in 2020.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
>  arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig             | 2 +-
>  init/do_mounts.c                                | 7 -------
>  init/do_mounts_rd.c                             | 7 -------
>  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)


-- 
~Randy