Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:52:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: "Johnny's first kernel hack" |
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:
> > Hi linux-kernel. Congratulations to all of you. The Linux sourcecode, in > addition to being Linux, is just a pleasure to look at. > > I made a 2.88 meg broot floppy for a PS2 2.88 meg floppy drive > ( with the MCA patch of course). One snag along the way was the > rd_size = 4096; in drivers/block/rd.c . I cavalierly changed this > to 8192, and I don't think anything broke. > > This suggests that the 4096 is kinda arbitrary, and perhaps a bit small > for 1998. I would suggest also adding the word "maximum" or something to > the related printk.
I wonder how many PAGES were allocated to handle that read?? Be careful when you do things like that.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.118 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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