Re: 2.5.37 broke the floppy driver

[Mikael Pettersson]

Alexander Viro writes:
 > 
 > 
 > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
 > 
 > > Al? The first bug was a legitimate partial completion error in
 > > ll_rw_blk, however there appears to be other breakage hitting floppy as
 > > well.
 > 
 > The third is my fault - I've screwed up reordering patches; get_gendisk
 > prototype change should've been submitted before floppy gendisks.  Missing
 > patch is O/O100-get_gendisk-C38 in usual place, I'll send it to Linus
 > when I finish with the next 4 chunks (ubd fixes on top of jdike's ones +
 > unexporting register_disk() + tapeblock switch to gendisk + removal of
 > "what if opened device has no gendisk" logics).  No comments on the
 > second one, though.

With O100-get_gendisk-C38 the oops is cured, but the floppy size is
still wrong. Freshly booted, dd if=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=72k of=/dev/null
reads only 720K instead of 1440K. Same thing on write: trying to
write more than 720K results in an ENOSPC error.