root=/dev/mtdblock doesn't work with kernel 2.4.18

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Stephan Linke wrote:

> After changing from 2.4.8-pre4 to a 2.4.18 kernel I can't mount the flash as
> root device any more. I'm using the "root=" boot argument to do so.
> The filesystem (cramfs) is alredy detected in mount_root() (super.c) when
> mount_root calls blkdev_put(bdev, BDEV_FS); Which for some reasons has to
> call the release function of the device which results in mtdblock_release()
> being called. The hole thing stops when invalidate_device() calls
> fsync_dev(dev).

Remove just the call to invalidate_device() in mtdblock_release()

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