Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:46:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] direct IO breaks root filesystem |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote: > > But my patch fixes another bug. Current /dev/ram* does not return -ENOSPC > at the end of device size because generic_file_write() also checks whether > mapping->host is a block device. So I think the patch is required.
I'll agree with your one-liner: it's good practice anyway to initialize any fields that could ever be looked at. I actually already applied it to my tree, I just want to make sure that people don't apply the other patch..
Linus
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