From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eval boards should not need to mess with ROOT_DEV
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:43:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071008214344.GF4350@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071008204221.GA11512@austin.ibm.com>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:42:21PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:41:54PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> >
> > >>> I can't see a good reason for eval board platform code to mess with
> > >>> the
> > >>> ROOT_DEV value instead of using the default behaviour (so I'm
> > >
> > > Powermac and pseries also do this weirdness. Should it be removed
> > > from there too?
> >
> > We need benh to make a comment about powermac.
> >
> > I think its ok to remove everywhere but we should see if he has any
> > issue.
>
> Ack. I see no problems in removing it.
Err. I meant my comment to be of limited scope: "for pseries".
I know nothing of other platforms.
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 15:12 [PATCH] Eval boards should not need to mess with ROOT_DEV Grant Likely
2007-10-08 15:27 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-08 19:03 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-08 19:41 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-08 20:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-10-08 21:43 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2007-10-08 20:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-08 21:06 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-08 21:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-08 22:19 ` Grant Likely
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