From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch?: initial ramdisks did not work in 2.5.28-29
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:51:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020729005156.A20294@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207282342.QAA03809@adam.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 04:42:20PM -0700
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 04:42:20PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Initial ramdisks do not work in linux-2.5.2{8,9}, because
Correct.
> Also, I would appreciate knowing if anyone is acting as
> maintainer for drivers/block/rd.c, or if I should just send
> patches for rd.c directly to Linus if nobody complains on
> the linux-kernel mailing list.
Al has been working on the problem. To permanently fix it so it doesn't
break each time a change to do_open() happens. Yes, this ramdisk driver
is that brittle.
> + rd_bdev[unit]->bd_inode->i_size = rd_kbsize[unit] << 10;
My temporary hack around the problem was to use rd_length[unit] since
that's already in bytes. But anything that adds code here just makes
the driver slightly more brittle.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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2002-07-28 23:42 Patch?: initial ramdisks did not work in 2.5.28-29 Adam J. Richter
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