Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] initrd: remove half of classic initrd support

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Askar Safin wrote:
> This patchset will not affect anyone, who showed up in these lists.
> See [5] for details.
> 
> Intro
> ====
> This patchset removes half of classic initrd (initial RAM disk) support,
> i. e. linuxrc code path, which was deprecated in 2020.
> Initramfs still stays, RAM disk itself (brd) still stays.
> And other half of initrd stays, too.
> init/do_mounts* are listed in VFS entry in
> MAINTAINERS, so I think this patchset should go through VFS tree.
> I tested the patchset on 8 (!!!) archs in Qemu (see details below).
> If you still use initrd, see below for workaround.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.20.inird branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.20.inird branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.20.inird

[1/3] init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/9c598c04183e
[2/3] initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc)
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/445b357b72aa
[3/3] init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/f84d950a0ef1