Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] initrd: remove half of classic initrd support
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:44:31 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > Without Acks or buy-in from other maintainers this is not a change we > can just do given that a few people already piped up and expressed > reservations that this would be doable for them. > > @Christoph, you marked this as deprecated years ago. > What's your take on this? I'd love to see it go obviously. But IIRC we had various users show up, which speaks against removing it. Maybe the first step would be a separate config option just for block-based initrd?