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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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Subject: Re: *_ROOT removed 
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200102080125.f181PRt70396@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes:
> : No, FFS_ROOT was unused.  We have a generic mountroot mechanism, so we no
> : longer needed to compile the "special" FFS-specific version of the code
> : into autoconf.c.  FFS is still optional.  For i386 FFS_ROOT and CD9660_ROOT
> : did nothing, and on alpha/ia64 it did something that was more likely to
> : cause problems than help.
> 
> Then why was FFS moved to opt_dontuse.h?

Becuase that's the right place for it.  It is kernel sources that don't
(shouldn't) use it, not kernel configuration files.

Bruce



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