initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated
The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more
flexible and efficient initramfs a long time. Warn about it being
removed soon.
Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 57ad5b2..e086691 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
extern char *envp_init[];
int error;
+ pr_warn("using deprecated initrd support, will be removed in 2021.\n");
+
real_root_dev = new_encode_dev(ROOT_DEV);
create_dev("/dev/root.old", Root_RAM0);
/* mount initrd on rootfs' /root */