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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:03:19 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *_ROOT removed 
Message-ID:  <200102080503.f1853J998701@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:25:27 PST." <200102080125.f181PRt70396@mobile.wemm.org> 
References:  <200102080125.f181PRt70396@mobile.wemm.org>  

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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?

Warner


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