Re: [PATCH] fix for initrd breakage in 2.5.13+

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:53:31PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> initrd was completely broken by your change set 1.447.69.4 ([PATCH] (4/6) 
> blksize_size[] removal).  As part of this change, you completely divorced the 
> ramdisk from the setup parameter rd_blocksize, so it now has the default 512 
> byte block size and thus initrd fails to mount.

Al has a far nicer patch for this, which works for me.  Al?

 Date:	Mon, 6 May 2002 03:03:04 -0400 (EDT)
 From:	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
 To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
 cc:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 Subject: [PATCH] rd.c blocksize fix

(fallout from blksize_size[] removal)

rd.c depends on exact value of blocksize being set from the very
beginning.

--- drivers/block/rd.c	Fri May  3 03:26:05 2002
+++ /tmp/rd.c	Mon May  6 03:00:00 2002
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@
 		rd_bdev[unit] = bdget(kdev_t_to_nr(inode->i_rdev));
 		rd_bdev[unit]->bd_openers++;
 		rd_bdev[unit]->bd_inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ramdisk_aops;
+		rd_bdev[unit]->bd_block_size = rd_blocksize;
 	}
 
 	return 0;

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