Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:11:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: dead comments |
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On Mon, 7 Feb 100, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> > In arch/i386/kernel/process.c is the following... > > /* > * This routine reboots the machine by asking the keyboard > * controller to pulse the reset-line low. We try that for a while, > * and if it doesn't work, we do some other stupid things. > */ > > > Which, although it has that Torvaldian charm (whether by LT or not), > seems to be completely obsolete, and quite misleading. I think. >
Yes, I sent a patch to Linus and this was removed in 2.3 at some point. I didn't bother doing the same for 2.2
(I also noticed a couple of other comments that seem to be out of date e.g. DaveM's in softirq.c but I'm not sure whether they really are or not)
john
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