Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2002 19:54:22 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix for initrd breakage in 2.5.13+ |
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:53:31PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > initrd was completely broken by your change set 1.447.69.4 ([PATCH] (4/6) > blksize_size[] removal). As part of this change, you completely divorced the > ramdisk from the setup parameter rd_blocksize, so it now has the default 512 > byte block size and thus initrd fails to mount.
Al has a far nicer patch for this, which works for me. Al?
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 03:03:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] rd.c blocksize fix
(fallout from blksize_size[] removal)
rd.c depends on exact value of blocksize being set from the very beginning.
--- drivers/block/rd.c Fri May 3 03:26:05 2002 +++ /tmp/rd.c Mon May 6 03:00:00 2002 @@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ rd_bdev[unit] = bdget(kdev_t_to_nr(inode->i_rdev)); rd_bdev[unit]->bd_openers++; rd_bdev[unit]->bd_inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ramdisk_aops; + rd_bdev[unit]->bd_block_size = rd_blocksize; } return 0; -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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