From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0510BC433DF for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2020 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB5420BED for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2020 09:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727064AbgGGJDy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2020 05:03:54 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:57868 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726478AbgGGJDy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2020 05:03:54 -0400 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 3A0A168AFE; Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:03:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:03:50 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Song Liu , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd Message-ID: <20200707090350.GA28510@lst.de> References: <20200615125323.930983-1-hch@lst.de> <20200615125323.930983-10-hch@lst.de> <514b0176-d235-f640-b278-9a7d49af356f@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <514b0176-d235-f640-b278-9a7d49af356f@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:40:31PM -0700, 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 > > Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem > like a good candidate for deprecation/removal. I thought about that as well. I think deprecating it at least is a good idea and can add a patch doing that to the next version.