Re: decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2

From: Song Liu
Date: Tue Jul 14 2020 - 12:21:03 EST


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:41 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:32:07PM -0700, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On July 9, 2020 8:17:57 AM PDT, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >There is no really good tree for this, so if there are no objections
> > >I'd like to set up a new one for linux-next.
> > >
> > >
> > >Git tree:
> > >
> > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git init-user-pointers
> > >
> > >Gitweb:
> > >
> > >http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/init-user-pointers
> > >
> > >
> > >Changes since v1:
> > > - add a patch to deprecated "classic" initrd support
> > >
> > >Diffstat:
> > > b/arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c | 2
> > > b/arch/sh/kernel/setup.c | 2
> > > b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c | 2
> > > b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c | 2
> > > b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2
> > > b/drivers/md/Makefile | 3
> > >b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 239
> > >++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> > > b/drivers/md/md.c | 34 +----
> > > b/drivers/md/md.h | 10 +
> > > b/fs/file.c | 7 -
> > > b/fs/open.c | 18 +--
> > > b/fs/read_write.c | 2
> > > b/fs/readdir.c | 11 -
> > > b/include/linux/initrd.h | 6 -
> > > b/include/linux/raid/detect.h | 8 +
> > > b/include/linux/syscalls.h | 16 --
> > > b/init/Makefile | 1
> > > b/init/do_mounts.c | 70 +----------
> > > b/init/do_mounts.h | 21 ---
> > > b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 13 --
> > > b/init/do_mounts_rd.c | 102 +++++++----------
> > > b/init/initramfs.c | 103 +++++------------
> > > b/init/main.c | 16 +-
> > > include/linux/raid/md_u.h | 13 --
> > > 24 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 452 deletions(-)
> >
> > I guess I could say something here... ;)
>
> Like adding an ACK? :)

For the md bits:
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!