From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263867AbTDZD3l (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:29:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264605AbTDZD3l (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:29:41 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:15277 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263867AbTDZD3k (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:29:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:41:51 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net Subject: [CFT][PATCH] cciss/cpqarray fixes (2.5) Message-ID: <20030426034151.GM10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folks, if you have access to cciss and/or cpqarray test boxen, please check if ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/T24-cciss-C68 and ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/T25-cpqarray-C68 restore the "allow root to open device with minor 0 even if nothing had been configured" behaviour. Changes: a) we _always_ register gendisk for disk #0 on controller. b) it stays registered until we forget about controller. c) when old code would remove it, we merely set size to 0. That (presumably) fixes the breakage introduced in 2.5 when we started to require registered gendisk for open(2). Please, check if that helps and doesn't introduce new breakage - I don't have either hardware, so it's completely untested. It builds, but that's it.