Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:57:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33.. |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > > Ok, > I found another major bio-related bug that definitely explains why the > floppy driver generated corruption - any partial request completion would > be totally messed up by the BIO layer (not the floppy driver). > > Any other block device driver that did partial request completion might > also be impacted. > > I'm still looking at the floppy driver itself - some of the request > completion code is so messed up as to be unreadable, and some of that may > actually be due to trying to work around the bio problem (unsuccessfully, > I may add). So this may not actually fix things for you yet, simply > because the floppy driver itself still does some strange things.
Confirmed. 2.5.33 + your two patches still corrupts data on a simple dd to then from /dev/fd0 test.
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