Re: [PATCH] AOE: fix up the block device registration so that it actually works now.

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>]

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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> Ed, I need the following patch against the latest -bk tree in order to
> get the aoe code to load and work properly.  Does it look good to you?

I hadn't submitted all my changes correctly, sorry.  Here's a patch
against block-2.6 that rectifies the omission.


Remove allow aoeblk_exit to be called from __init code, and move
register_blkdev into aoe_init.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>


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diff -uprN block-2.6-export-a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
--- block-2.6-export-a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c	2005-01-19 14:29:31.000000000 -0500
+++ patch-block-2.6-20050119-export/linux/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c	2005-01-19 15:21:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -245,7 +252,7 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp)
 		d->fw_ver, (long long)d->ssize);
 }
 
-void __exit
+void
 aoeblk_exit(void)
 {
 	kmem_cache_destroy(buf_pool_cache);
@@ -254,19 +261,12 @@ aoeblk_exit(void)
 int __init
 aoeblk_init(void)
 {
-	int n;
-
 	buf_pool_cache = kmem_cache_create("aoe_bufs", 
 					   sizeof(struct buf),
 					   0, 0, NULL, NULL);
 	if (buf_pool_cache == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	n = register_blkdev(AOE_MAJOR, DEVICE_NAME);
-	if (n < 0) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: aoeblk_init: can't register major\n");
-		return n;
-	}
 	return 0;
 }
 

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  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>