The whole reason for my replacement was to add driverfs to IDE and remove
devfs and ultimately "de-gooch" the kernel. So we are nearly 100 patches
in and the primary reason for ousting is still a failure, NICE!
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, James Bottomley wrote:
> Er, oops, I think this one's my fault.
>
> The recent driverfs additions for SCSI also added partition handling in
> driverfs. The code is slightly more invasive than it should be so the IDE
> driver needs to know how to use it (which it doesn't yet). In theory there's
> a NULL pointer check in driverfs_create_partitions for precisely this case,
> but it looks like the IDE code is forgetting to zero out a kmalloc of a struct
> gendisk somewhere (hence the 5a5a... contents). At a cursory glance, this
> seems to be in ide/probe.c, so does the attached patch fix it?
>
> I'll try to reproduce, but I'm all SCSI here except for my laptop.
>
> James
>
>
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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