Remove code to check for host kernel LOOP support for gentoo bug #275757

ChangeLog

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; 2008-2009 Various authors (see AUTHORS)
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  04 Jul 2009; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_funcs.sh, genkernel:
+  Remove code to check for host kernel LOOP support for gentoo bug #275757
+
   28 Jun 2009; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/modprobe,
   genkernel.conf:
   Restore BOOTLOADER="grub" example line in genkernel.conf for gentoo bug

gen_funcs.sh

@@ -236,23 +236,6 @@ gen_die() {
   	exit 1
 }
 
-has_loop() {
-	if [ -e /var/log/dmesg ]
-	then
-		cat /var/log/dmesg | egrep -q '^loop:'
-	else
-		dmesg | egrep -q '^loop:'
-	fi
-	if [ -e '/dev/loop0' -o -e '/dev/loop/0' -a ${PIPESTATUS[1]} ]
-	then
-		# We found a standard dev loop device, assume loop is compiled into the
-		# kernel or the module is loaded
-		return 0
-	else
-		return 1
-	fi
-}
-
 isBootRO()
 {
 	return $(awk '( $2 == "'${BOOTDIR}'" && $4 ~ /(^|,)ro(,|$)/){ I=1; exit }END{print !I }' /proc/mounts);

genkernel

@@ -129,23 +129,6 @@ dump_debugcache
 
 NORMAL=${BOLD} print_info 1 "Linux Kernel ${BOLD}${KV}${NORMAL} for ${BOLD}${ARCH}${NORMAL}..."
 
-if [ "${BUILD_RAMDISK}" -ne '0' ]
-then
-	if ! has_loop
-	then
-		modprobe loop 2>/dev/null
-		sleep 3
-		if ! has_loop
-		then
-			print_error 1 'The build-host kernel does not appear to have loop device support.'
-			print_error 1 'Please load loop support before running genkernel!'
-			gen_die 'Load loop support!'
-		else
-			print_info 1 'loop: "loop" module loaded successfully...'
-		fi
-	fi
-fi
-
 # Check BOOTDIR is mounted
 if isTrue ${CMD_NOINSTALL}
 then