...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in
6b99e6e6aa62 ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of
"rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c86c ("initrd: remove
support for multiple floppies") in 2020.

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
 arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig             | 2 +-
 init/do_mounts.c                                | 7 -------
 init/do_mounts_rd.c                             | 7 -------
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6c42061ca20e..15af6933eab4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3319,8 +3319,6 @@
 			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
 			the same attribute, the last one is used.
 
-	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
-
 	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
 			Format: <integer>
 
@@ -5284,8 +5282,6 @@
 			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
 				statistical time based profiling.
 
-	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
-
 	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
 			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
 			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
index 2227f86100ad..4d720001c12e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ CONFIG_ASSABET_NEPONSET=y
 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x80000
 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0xc1000000
 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM=y
-CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySA0,38400n8 cpufreq=221200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sa1100:512K(boot),1M(kernel),2560K(initrd),4M(root) load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 mem=32M noinitrd initrd=0xc0800000,3M"
+CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySA0,38400n8 cpufreq=221200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sa1100:512K(boot),1M(kernel),2560K(initrd),4M(root) mem=32M noinitrd initrd=0xc0800000,3M"
 CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y
 CONFIG_PM=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 6af29da8889e..0f2f44e6250c 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -34,13 +34,6 @@ static int root_wait;
 
 dev_t ROOT_DEV;
 
-static int __init load_ramdisk(char *str)
-{
-	pr_warn("ignoring the deprecated load_ramdisk= option\n");
-	return 1;
-}
-__setup("load_ramdisk=", load_ramdisk);
-
 static int __init readonly(char *str)
 {
 	if (*str)
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index 19d9f33dcacf..5311f2d7edc8 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@
 static struct file *in_file, *out_file;
 static loff_t in_pos, out_pos;
 
-static int __init prompt_ramdisk(char *str)
-{
-	pr_warn("ignoring the deprecated prompt_ramdisk= option\n");
-	return 1;
-}
-__setup("prompt_ramdisk=", prompt_ramdisk);
-
 int __initdata rd_image_start;		/* starting block # of image */
 
 static int __init ramdisk_start_setup(char *str)
-- 
2.47.3

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

On 11/19/25 2:24 PM, Askar Safin wrote:
> ...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in
> 6b99e6e6aa62 ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of
> "rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c86c ("initrd: remove
> support for multiple floppies") in 2020.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
>  arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig             | 2 +-
>  init/do_mounts.c                                | 7 -------
>  init/do_mounts_rd.c                             | 7 -------
>  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)


-- 
~Randy

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025, at 23:24, Askar Safin wrote:
> ...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in
> 6b99e6e6aa62 ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of
> "rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c86c ("initrd: remove
> support for multiple floppies") in 2020.
>
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
>  arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig             | 2 +-

For the arm defconfig:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>