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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 21:58:53 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>,
        Joern Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/24] block: move the code to do early boot lookup of
 block devices to block/



On 5/23/23 00:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index f08b83e62c6222..3f8cf6dc7de887 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -5452,7 +5452,7 @@
>  			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
>  
>  	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
> -			See early_lookup_bdev comment in init/do_mounts.c.
> +			See early_lookup_bdev comment in block/early-lookup.c

Patch 13 does this:

 	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
-			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
+			See early_lookup_bdev comment in init/do_mounts.c.

Should this latter chunk be dropped?

-- 
~Randy