Re: initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 09:37:28 EST


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> That loop does set_capacity() on each element in rd_disks[], but
> set_capacity(disk,size) just sets disk->capacity = size, and
> initrd_disk is a different variable so I don't see how initrd_disk
> could ever get a capacity assigned to it unless by an explicit
> "set_capacity(&initrd_disk, rd_size * 2);".

_Oh_.

Yes, you are right - it's my fault. FWIW, it should be
        (initrd_end-initrd_start+511)>>9
rather than rd_size * 2. Thanks, fixed in my tree, will go to Linus
today.

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