linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/34] x86: Allow to override the ROOT

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:39:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
CC:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/34] x86: Allow to override the ROOT_DEV variable

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
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