Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:40:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40 |
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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.
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