Re: [PATCH] "blk: request botched" error on floppy write

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 07:33:31 EST


On Sat, Jul 19 2003, Sean wrote:
> The floppy drive appears to be working for some people with the
> 2.6 kernel as is. However, there have also been reports of some
> problems (see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654 )
>
> The attached patch against 2.6.0-test1 fixes the problem on all the
> machines i've tested.

So floppy has a problem with clustered requests? Your patch doesn't fix
that bug, it masks it.

Question is, if we should just accept that and move on. I mean, who
really cares?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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