Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 1999 03:23:27 +0200 | From | Luca Montecchiani <> | Subject | [PATCH] 2.3.13: Floppy options are ignored at boot time |
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Using 2.3.13 on my old thinkpad laptop I've noticed that "floppy=thinkpad" lilo option doesn't work anymore.
In short it's impossible to give _any_ floppy cmdline at boot time. Using floppy.o as a module work fine as usual.
I've also found an unused define FLOPPY_SETUP.
Follow the patch:
--- floppy.c.ori Fri Aug 13 01:23:31 1999 +++ floppy.c Fri Aug 13 03:02:03 1999 @@ -4061,7 +4061,6 @@ { "no_unexpected_interrupts", 0, &print_unex, 0, 0 }, { "L40SX", 0, &print_unex, 0, 0 } };
-#define FLOPPY_SETUP void __init floppy_setup(char *str) { int i; @@ -4457,6 +4456,9 @@ #endif
#else + +__setup ("floppy=", floppy_setup); + /* eject the boot floppy (if we need the drive for a different root floppy) */ /* This should only be called at boot time when we're sure that there's no * resource contention. */
ciao, luca
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