2002-10-16 21:32:25

by Cameron, Steve

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Subject: [PATCH 1/8] 2.5.43 cciss partition problem

Regen'ed the cciss patches against 2.5.43

Without this patch, only the first logical disk is usable, as
the other disks can't be opened to read the partition tables.
Applies to 2.5.43

diff -urN linux-2.5.43/drivers/block/cciss.c linux-2.5.43-a/drivers/block/cciss.c
--- linux-2.5.43/drivers/block/cciss.c Wed Oct 16 08:11:14 2002
+++ linux-2.5.43-a/drivers/block/cciss.c Wed Oct 16 12:22:08 2002
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
* but I'm already using way to many device nodes to claim another one
* for "raw controller".
*/
- if (inode->i_bdev->bd_inode->i_size == 0) {
+ if (hba[ctlr]->drv[dsk].nr_blocks == 0) {
if (minor(inode->i_rdev) != 0)
return -ENXIO;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))