Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 23:40:42 EST


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@xxxxxx>

Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem
like a good candidate for deprecation/removal.

-hpa