From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756660Ab1DLDjp (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:39:45 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53452 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756386Ab1DLDjn (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:39:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4DA3C96E.7020502@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:39:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Marek CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/34] x86: Allow to override the ROOT_DEV variable References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <1302015561-21047-10-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <4D9B3581.6080105@zytor.com> <4D9C1AA0.9030008@suse.cz> <20110411150820.GA22004@sepie.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20110411150820.GA22004@sepie.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/11/2011 08:08 AM, Michal Marek wrote: > > Like this? > > Subject: [PATCH] x86: Do not set the rood_dev field in bzImage > > This has been obsoleted by the root= commandline for several years. > People who still depend on this will surely have a copy of the rdev > command around, the rest of the world gets rid of another piece of > buildhost-dependent data in the build. > Works for me. "Several years" is even kind of an understatement ;) -hpa