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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
References: <20200615125323.930983-1-hch@lst.de>
 <20200615125323.930983-10-hch@lst.de>
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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 <hch@lst.de>

Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem
like a good candidate for deprecation/removal.

	-hpa