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

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:20:49 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Askar Safin" <safinaskar@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...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 Wed, Nov 19, 2025, at 23:24, 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>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
>  arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig             | 2 +-

For the arm defconfig:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>