Re: patch-2.4.10-pre1

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:05:40 +0200

Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Patch fixes the use of ioctls in partitions/ibm.c, removing
> a lot of junk in process (fake struct file allocation, set_fs(),
> yodda, yodda - we use blkdev_get() and ioctl_by_bdev() instead).
> Please, apply

Well It is a while ago that I was claiming that the IBM blk-dev handling
code seems to be done by someone who got a bit confused... Thank you
for working on fixing this!
-
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/