devfs is long gone, and autoscan works just fine without this these days.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 10 ----------
1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
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);
}
}
--
2.26.2
