Re: [PATCH 2.6] drivers/block/floppy.c: Premature blk_queue_max_sectors()

["Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>]

 Hi Arthur,

Em Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:59:34PM +0200, Arthur Othieno escreveu:

| We're prematurely pampering the request queue before
| checking whether it was indeed allocated successfully.
| 
| Against 2.6.6. Thanks.
| 
| 
|  floppy.c |    2 +-
|  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
| 
| --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c	2004-05-20 23:48:04.000000000 +0200
| +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c	2004-05-21 21:29:33.000000000 +0200
| @@ -4271,11 +4271,11 @@
|  		goto out;
|  
|  	floppy_queue = blk_init_queue(do_fd_request, &floppy_lock);
| -	blk_queue_max_sectors(floppy_queue, 64);
|  	if (!floppy_queue) {
|  		err = -ENOMEM;
|  		goto fail_queue;
|  	}
| +	blk_queue_max_sectors(floppy_queue, 64);
|  
|  	blk_register_region(MKDEV(FLOPPY_MAJOR, 0), 256, THIS_MODULE,
|  			    floppy_find, NULL, NULL);

 I and Randy did a (long) audit for floppy init sometime ago. It includes
your change. :-)

 I think the patch will be in next -mm.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
<http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br>