Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:03:50 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd |
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:40:31PM -0700, 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.
I thought about that as well. I think deprecating it at least is a good idea and can add a patch doing that to the next version.
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