Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2020 20:40:31 -0700 |
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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.
-hpa
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