From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: mhteas@btech.com (Malcolm H. Teas)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel), alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ramdisk ioctl bug fix, kernel 2.4.14
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 04:16:56 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111130916.fAD9Gvi32288@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF087DA.2010908@btech.com> from "Malcolm H. Teas" at Nov 12, 2001 08:39:22 PM
> The patch below makes the ramdisk return the actual size that is currently
> allocated instead of returning the max size we can possibly allocate. Affects
> system calls ioctl(filedes, BLKGETSIZE) and ioctl(filedes, BLKGETSIZE64) for
> ramdisk devices.
That seems to be the opposite of what its always done, and also of what
disk devices do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 2:39 [PATCH] Ramdisk ioctl bug fix, kernel 2.4.14 Malcolm H. Teas
2001-11-13 9:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-13 14:04 ` Malcolm H. Teas
2001-11-13 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 20:15 ` Malcolm H. Teas
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