Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] CDROMEJECT cannot eject some devices

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:46:24PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> Fix the bug where CDROMEJECT cannot eject some devices.

> --- linux-2617-g21.orig/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> +++ linux-2617-g21/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static int __blk_send_generic(request_qu
>  	struct request *rq;
>  	int err;
>  
> -	rq = blk_get_request(q, WRITE, __GFP_WAIT);
> +	rq = blk_get_request(q, READ, __GFP_WAIT);

I don't believe this hunk is necessary for mainline.  IIRC, there was a
bug around length checks vs read vs write which is now fixed.
Presumably it's still needed in Ubuntu's kernel though.

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