diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
index 2c00b072a4c8..1e1057958dd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README
+++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
@@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ early userspace image can be built by an unprivileged user.
 
 As a technical note, when directories and files are specified, the
 entire CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is passed to
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
 can really be interpreted as any legal argument to
 gen_initramfs_list.sh.  If a directory is specified as an argument then
 the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and
 usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output.  If a directory is
-specified as an argument to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
+specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
 contents of the file are simply copied to the output.  All of the output
 directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are
 processed by usr/gen_init_cpio.
 
-See also 'scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
+See also 'usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
 
 Where's this all leading?
 =========================
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
index b176928e6963..79637d227e85 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.)
 The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools.  If you specify a
 directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure
 creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
 using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created
 from usr/gen_init_cpio.c).  The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is
 entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also
diff --git a/usr/Makefile b/usr/Makefile
index 237a028693ce..748f6a60bb1e 100644
--- a/usr/Makefile
+++ b/usr/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ $(obj)/initramfs_data.o: $(obj)/$(datafile_y) FORCE
 # Generate the initramfs cpio archive
 
 hostprogs-y := gen_init_cpio
-initramfs   := $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+initramfs   := $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/$(src)/gen_initramfs_list.sh
 ramfs-input := $(if $(filter-out "",$(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE)), \
 			$(shell echo $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE)),-d)
 ramfs-args  := \
diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
rename to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh