From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from saturn.homenet([192.168.225.55]) (1170 bytes) by megami.veritas.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #4 built 1999-Aug-24) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:12:14 +0100 (BST) From: Tigran Aivazian Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test7-pre4 oops in generic_make_request() In-Reply-To: <14747.7309.941683.168466@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > But it looks like you are doing IO on a raw (drivers/char/raw.c) > device, rather than /dev/hdd1. Is that right? > yes, you are right - I didn't know that myself ;) Of course I should have guessed - our mkfs on other UNIX flavours does access the character (raw) interface rather than buffered (block) one so the port to Linux had to do the RAW_SETBIND magic and do the same... Thanks for the patch - it works beautifully, added to my linux-vxfs chunk but I hope Linus takes it into pre5. Regards, Tigran -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/