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The classic initial ramdisk has been replaced by the much more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 (file)
--- 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 */