mtd device for rootfs with kernel 2.4.18

Armin Schindler acs at sysgo.de
Wed Apr 3 09:39:02 EST 2002


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:
> acs at sysgo.de said:
> > Okay, the call to invalidate_device(), which causes the semaphore
> > problem, was removed from the release function in nftlcore.c.
> 
> > Is it safe to do the same from the release function in mtdblock.c ? If
> > yes, why was it added ? 
> 
> It should never have been there in the first place. It was removed from 
> mtdblock.c in CVS last year, and that fix is in 2.4.18-pre5.

Okay, thanx.
Just wondering, in CVS HEAD it is still there ? Or is this only
meant for 2.5 ?

Armin





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