From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:51:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20200715065140.GA22060@lst.de> References: <20200714190427.4332-1-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Song Liu , Al Viro , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel , NeilBrown , Guoqing Jiang List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:34:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:06 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > 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. > > Looks good to me, with the added note on the utimes cruft too as a > further cleanup (separate patch). > > So you can add my acked-by. > > I _would_ like the md parts to get a few more acks. I see the one from > Song Liu, anybody else in md land willing to go through those patches? > They were the bulk of it, and the least obvious to me because I don't > know that code at all? Song is the maintainer. Neil is the only person I could think of that also knows the old md code pretty well. Guoqing has contributed a lot lately, but the code touched here is rather historic (and not used very much at all these days as people use modular md and initramfѕ based detection).