Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33..

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 17:33:12 EST


Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >
> > Confirmed. 2.5.33 + your two patches still corrupts data on a simple
> > dd to then from /dev/fd0 test.
>
> Ok, if you don't have BK, then here's the floppy driver end_request()
> cleanup as a plain patch.
>
> This passes dd tests for me, but they were by no means very exhaustive.

Success! With this patch and your previous two the floppy driver
passes all tests I've thrown at it, including raw data access,
VFS access with ext2, installing lilo, fsck, and booting the result.

Thanks.

/Mikael
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