Re: [PATCH] LKCD for 2.5.44 (8/8): dump driver and build files

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:29:17 +0000


On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:26:59PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:58:49PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > + }
> >
> > You need to call bd_claim to get exclusion on the bdev.
> >
>
> Won't there be a clash when it comes to setting up swap as
> the dump device ?

Yes, if you dump to swap you have to claim sys_swapon as the swap code does.

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