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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unused old code from powermac setup code
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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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>