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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: For review: machdep.bootdev sysctl (for i386) 
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Michael Smith wrote:

[bootdev]
> If it's added as something like machdep.guessed_bootdev, then I'll
> probably just barf into a bag and forget about it.  I can't promise that
> the code won't get cleaned out at some point, but it's been quietly
> rotting for a few years now, so I wouldn't consider it too much of a risk.

I maintain this code locally but wouldn't commit my changes :-).  Enough
of it has been removed to break determining the root device from the boot
device in some cases (the non-devfs case?).

Bruce


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