From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:40:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210031037340.15787-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021003131240.B2304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Russell King wrote:
> My mtdblock problems are probably related to this, so I'll followup here.
>
> mtdblock registers its gendisk structure in its open() method.
> Unfortunately, do_open wants to obtain this structure before
> the open() method (but doesn't use it.)
That's wrong thing to do, actually. Correct way to handle it is the
same as for modular ide, etc. - separate callback to be used by
get_gendisk() and doing allocations/loading subdrivers/etc.
It will go in right after complete switchover to dynamic allocation and
introduction of ->bd_disk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-03 11:00 initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40 Mikael Pettersson
2002-10-03 11:07 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 11:52 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-10-03 14:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 12:12 ` Russell King
2002-10-03 14:40 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2002-10-07 12:52 Mikael Pettersson
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