From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unused old code from powermac setup code
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:56:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191470168.22572.149.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18180.25146.321019.568200@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:47 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Since bootdevice never gets initialized, it's always NULL, and hence a
> whole pile of code in arch/powerpc/platforms/setup.c never gets used.
> (This was the code that originally was there so that the automatic
> root partition selection mechanism would prefer a rootish-looking
> partition on the device that OF loaded the kernel from over a similar
> partition on other devices.)
>
> This removes the unused code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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2007-10-04 3:47 [PATCH] Remove unused old code from powermac setup code Paul Mackerras
2007-10-04 3:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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