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The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more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>
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Christoph Hellwig 2020-07-08 18:18:54 +02:00
parent f0ea68f139
commit 9acc17baf1
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@ -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 */