On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:

Without Acks or buy-in from other maintainers this is not a change we
can just do given that a few people already piped up and expressed
reservations that this would be doable for them.

@Christoph, you marked this as deprecated years ago.
What's your take on this?

I'd love to see it go obviously.  But IIRC we had various users show
up, which speaks against removing it.  Maybe the first step would be
a separate config option just for block-based initrd?