Re: [patch] bouncefix-2.5.1-A2

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:11:33 +0200 (SAST)


On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> okay, there was another bug as well, this time in the loopback driver: it
> did not set up its own bounce limit. This happens because the loopback
> driver is a special driver that is not governed by the normal elevator,
> thus it does not call blk_init_queue(). So the attached patch has two
> fixes:
>
> - call blk_queue_bounce_limit() from loop.c
> - it fixes the off-by-one bounce-limit bugs in blkdev.h
>
> does this fix your system?

Yep dead on, thanks.

Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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