Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-12-31 Thread Jeff Chua
MAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained via initrd. I think the problem is that the effect of the blkdev_ope

Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-12-11 Thread Werner Almesberger
Jeff Chua wrote: > I'm posting this again hoping that it'll get incorporated into the kernel. It's already in Alan's tree (e.g. patch-2.4.0test11-ac1.bz2) and should find its way from there into Linus' tree soon (i.e. probably by test12). - Werner -- _

Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-12-11 Thread Jeff Chua
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained via initrd. I think the p

Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-12-11 Thread Jeff Chua
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained via initrd. I think the p

Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Chua
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained

[PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-11-19 Thread Werner Almesberger
Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained via initrd. I think the problem is that the effect of the blkdev_open(out_inode, ...) in drivers/block/rd.c:rd_load_image is not undone at the end. I've attached a patch for 2.4.0-test11-pre7 that s