Re: initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:40:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Russell King wrote:

> My mtdblock problems are probably related to this, so I'll followup here.
>
> mtdblock registers its gendisk structure in its open() method.
> Unfortunately, do_open wants to obtain this structure before
> the open() method (but doesn't use it.)

That's wrong thing to do, actually. Correct way to handle it is the
same as for modular ide, etc. - separate callback to be used by
get_gendisk() and doing allocations/loading subdrivers/etc.

It will go in right after complete switchover to dynamic allocation and
introduction of ->bd_disk.

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