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    [PATCH] ppc boot device selection cleanup · e8618032
    Alexander Viro authored
    	PPC logics for choice of default boot device number switched to
    dev_t.  Rationale: it belongs to userland; we notice partitions with
    certain properties and choose one of them as the best candidate for
    being a root fs; then we put the resulting device number into ROOT_DEV,
    which has only one use - it's passed to mknod(2) to create a device node
    on rootfs and allow mount(2) get us the final root.
    
    	IOW, all that code has nothing whatsoever with kernel internals
    of any description - the value we are generating will be passed to
    mknod(2) anyway.  Switched to dev_t.
    
    	Note: that code should eventually be moved to early userland.
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