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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd
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On 03/07/2020 04:40, 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.
>
Reading the gentoo mailing list, it seems there's a fair few people who
don't use initramfs. I get the impression they don't use initrd either,
though.

I don't know too much about booting without an initramfs - I switched
ages ago - so what is possible and what they're actually doing, I don't
know.

Cheers,
Wol

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