Re: [PATCH] Remove unused old code from powermac setup code

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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

[PATCH] Remove unused old code from powermac setup code

2007-10-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
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 t