Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/62] initrd: remove classic initrd support

Jessica Clarke <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:08:18 +0100
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On 13 Sep 2025, at 01:37, Askar Safin <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> For example, I renamed the following global variables:
> 
> __initramfs_start
> __initramfs_size
> [...]
> 
> to:
> 
> __builtin_initramfs_start
> __builtin_initramfs_size

I strongly suggest picking different names given __builtin_foo is the
naming scheme used for GNU C builtins/intrinsics. I leave you and
others to bikeshed that one.

Jessica