The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more flexible and efficient initramfs a long time. Warn about it being removed soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c index 57ad5b2da8f5f5..e08669187d63be 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 */ -- 2.27.0