>> Linus, if nobody says otherwise, I recommend that you apply
>> this patch.
>Well, I already applied your previous one, in fact, and it's in the
>just-uploaded pre8 kernel.
Thanks!
>Mind verifying that and sending the incremental update?
No problem. I have attached the one line addition below.
>Btw, do you actually _have_ a machine that uses the xd driver, or was this
>patch done just out of some perverse joy in theoretical retrocomputing?
Years ago, I submitted a patch to allow configuration of
the kernel with "./configure", which would configure every driver as
a module, aside from compiling in the initial ramdisk and the initial
ramdisk's filesystem. I haven't configured a kernel for years; the
boot scripts and hot plugging software do that. The same binary
build of the kernel can run on all of my x86 hardware.
That is why I know that 92 files failed to compile on x86 in
2.5.1-pre7, and largely why I care about fixing xd.c.
Anyhow, thanks for asking. By the way, if you have any interest
in integrating my "./configure" functionality now, I would be happy to
clean it up and resubmit it. (It is mostly a patch to scripts/Configure.)
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--- linux-2.5.1-pre8/drivers/block/xd.c Sat Dec 8 21:29:50 2001
+++ linux/drivers/block/xd.c Sat Dec 8 20:19:54 2001
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@
INIT_REQUEST; /* do some checking on the request structure */
if (CURRENT_DEV < xd_drives
+ && (CURRENT->flags & REQ_CMD)
&& CURRENT->sector + CURRENT->nr_sectors
<= xd_struct[MINOR(CURRENT->rq_dev)].nr_sects) {
block = CURRENT->sector;
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