Re: [PATCH] Ramdisk ioctl bug fix, kernel 2.4.14

Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 04:16:56 -0500 (EST)


> The patch below makes the ramdisk return the actual size that is currently
> allocated instead of returning the max size we can possibly allocate. Affects
> system calls ioctl(filedes, BLKGETSIZE) and ioctl(filedes, BLKGETSIZE64) for
> ramdisk devices.

That seems to be the opposite of what its always done, and also of what
disk devices do.
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