Re: [RFC] problem with grow_dev_page()/readpage()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Then we'd better check that in bread() (getblk(), actually).  Works for
> me - that's even better than grow_dev_page().
>
> Notice that 2.4.15-pre6 _does_ have at least two bugs of that kind - aic7xxx
> (both old and new drivers).  They have an ioctl() that tries to guess the
> BIOS geometry.  It blindly does bread() on 1Kb buffer, which leaves MO
> disks very unhappy.  So check looks like a good idea...

Works for me.

		Linus