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[04/16] md: remove the autoscan partition re-read

Message ID 20200615125323.930983-5-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/16] init: remove the bstat helper | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig June 15, 2020, 12:53 p.m. UTC 
devfs is long gone, and autoscan works just fine without this these days.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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 drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
index 0eb746211ed53c..6bc9b734eee6ff 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
@@ -240,16 +240,6 @@  static void __init md_setup_drive(void)
 			err = ksys_ioctl(fd, RUN_ARRAY, 0);
 		if (err)
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "md: starting md%d failed\n", minor);
-		else {
-			/* reread the partition table.
-			 * I (neilb) and not sure why this is needed, but I cannot
-			 * boot a kernel with devfs compiled in from partitioned md
-			 * array without it
-			 */
-			ksys_close(fd);
-			fd = ksys_open(name, 0, 0);
-			ksys_ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART, 0);
-		}
 		ksys_close(fd);
 	}
 }