From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 01:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e60b1977-2e1d-75ee-e934-207658145098@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514b0176-d235-f640-b278-9a7d49af356f@zytor.com>
On 03/07/2020 04:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole
>> ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other
>> drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956875c2
>> ("brd: remove support for BLKFLSBUF"), so this call is entirely
>> pointless now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem
> like a good candidate for deprecation/removal.
>
Reading the gentoo mailing list, it seems there's a fair few people who
don't use initramfs. I get the impression they don't use initrd either,
though.
I don't know too much about booting without an initramfs - I switched
ages ago - so what is possible and what they're actually doing, I don't
know.
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-04 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-15 12:53 decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 01/16] init: remove the bstat helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-02 23:25 ` Song Liu
2020-07-07 10:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-07 16:54 ` Song Liu
2020-07-08 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 02/16] md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/ Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 18:50 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-16 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-18 5:53 ` Rong Chen
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 03/16] md: replace the RAID_AUTORUN ioctl with a direct function call Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 04/16] md: remove the autoscan partition re-read Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 05/16] md: remove the kernel version of md_u.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 06/16] md: simplify md_setup_drive Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 07/16] md: rewrite md_setup_drive to avoid ioctls Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 08/16] initrd: remove support for multiple floppies Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-03 3:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-07-04 0:18 ` antlists [this message]
2020-07-04 2:19 ` hpa
2020-07-07 9:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 10/16] initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 11/16] initrd: mark init_linuxrc as __init Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 12/16] initramfs: remove the populate_initrd_image and clean_rootfs stubs Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 13/16] initramfs: simplify clean_rootfs Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 14/16] initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 15/16] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 16/16] fs: remove ksys_open Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-15 16:03 ` decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code Randy Dunlap
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