[PATCH] ppc boot device selection cleanup
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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