On June 19, 2020 5:03:33 PM PDT, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: >It seems fine to me, but I did not initially object to the use of that >name anyway. hpa, what do you think? > >On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 7:31 AM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: >> >> Most architectures have been passing the location of an initrd via >the >> initrd= option since their inception. Remove the comment as it's >both >> wrong and unrelated to the commit that introduced it. >> >> Fixes: 694cfd87b0c8 ("x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify >initrd physical address") >> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> >> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> >> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <li...@dominikbrodowski.net> >> Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <h...@zytor.com> >> Cc: Ronald G. Minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> >> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> >> --- >> For a bit more context, I assume there's been some confusion between >> "initrd" being a keyword in things like extlinux.conf and also that >for >> quite a long time now initrd information is passed via device tree >and >> not the command line on relevant architectures. But it's still true >> that it's been a valid command line option to the kernel since the >90s. >> It's just the case that in 2018 the code was consolidated from under >> arch/ and in to this file. >> --- >> init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 5 ----- >> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c >> index d72beda824aa..53314d7da4be 100644 >> --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c >> +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c >> @@ -45,11 +45,6 @@ static int __init early_initrdmem(char *p) >> } >> early_param("initrdmem", early_initrdmem); >> >> -/* >> - * This is here as the initrd keyword has been in use since 11/2018 >> - * on ARM, PowerPC, and MIPS. >> - * It should not be; it is reserved for bootloaders. >> - */ >> static int __init early_initrd(char *p) >> { >> return early_initrdmem(p); >> -- >> 2.17.1 >>
Well, I observe that it was documented as reserved for bootloaders since the mid-90s at least. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.