Re: [PATCH 09/34] x86: Allow to override the ROOT_DEV variable

Paul Bolle
2011-04-12T07:12:00Z

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 23:25 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> Does the default of FLOPPY still get used after this patch, or is this a stale comment?

It looks like a stale comment to me. The default currently actually is
0, 0 (major, minor). I'm not sure "FLOPPY" even works. Is
'stat("FLOPPY", ...)' legal?

> Also, I sort of expected to see more code removed that *used* the no-longer-passed
> value of ROOT_DEV.

That's what I expect too. See my addendum to Michal's patch in the
message I sent a few hours ago.

Paul Bolle