From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 16:18:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated
X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9acc17baf1fd6369cf969b1130bcf8c4b616ecfb;p=linux.git

initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated

The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more
flexible and efficient initramfs a long time.  Warn about it being
removed soon.

Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 57ad5b2da8f5f..e08669187d63b 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
 	extern char *envp_init[];
 	int error;
 
+	pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in 2021.\n");
+
 	real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
 	create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);
 	/* mount initrd on rootfs' /root */