[PATCH RESEND 22/62] doc: remove obsolete mentions of pivot_root
From: Askar Safin <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-13 01:04:05
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Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka, Benjamin Marzinski, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
They refer to initrd, which was removed in previous commits Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <redacted> --- Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst | 4 ++-- Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
index 981d6a907699..586bb38d716b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Early creation of mapped devices It is possible to configure a device-mapper device to act as the root device for your system in two ways. -The first is to build an initial ramdisk which boots to a minimal userspace -which configures the device, then pivot_root(8) in to it. +The first is to build initramfs which boots to a minimal userspace +which configures the device, then switches to it. The second is to create one or more device-mappers using the module parameter "dm-mod.create=" through the kernel boot command line argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst
index 17aafc610908..ac9cb28776c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ Intel IXDPG425 Development Platform added. One issue with this board is that the mini-PCI slots only have the 3.3v line connected, so you can't use a PCI to mini-PCI adapter with an E100 card. So to NFS root you need to use either - the CSR or a WiFi card and a ramdisk that BOOTPs and then does - a pivot_root to NFS. + the CSR or a WiFi card and initramfs that BOOTPs and then switches + to NFS. Motorola PrPMC1100 Processor Mezanine Card http://www.fountainsys.com
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