Re: Something broken in sys_swapon

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:31:25 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Simon Kirby wrote:

> kdev_t dev = swap_inode->i_rdev;
> struct block_device_operations *bdops;
>
> p->swap_device = dev;
> set_blocksize(dev, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> I don't know much at all about the inode structure, but doesn't this set
> the block size of the originating filesystem containing the inode rather
> than the block device that inode happens to be pointing to? That would

man 2 stat

i_rdev is equivalent of st_rdev, i_dev - of st_dev.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/