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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2011-07-13 08:30:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2011-07-13 08:30:22 +0100 |
| commit | cf056edbbe70393faa6edd2b7859a14467910946 (patch) | |
| tree | ca30ef021f12d1f06e18856a60f815ba63e78f60 /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | 58b6542b50ded4243c26c251c0507e5f658642f6 (diff) | |
| parent | 620917de59eeb934b9f8cf35cc2d95c1ac8ed0fc (diff) | |
Merge 3.0-rc7 into drm-core-next
This pulls in all the drm fixes up to this point which are needed
for some -next patches to work.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 1a2421f908f0..610e8e0b04b8 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -762,7 +762,19 @@ static struct block_device *bd_start_claiming(struct block_device *bdev, if (!disk) return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO); - whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0); + /* + * Normally, @bdev should equal what's returned from bdget_disk() + * if partno is 0; however, some drivers (floppy) use multiple + * bdev's for the same physical device and @bdev may be one of the + * aliases. Keep @bdev if partno is 0. This means claimer + * tracking is broken for those devices but it has always been that + * way. + */ + if (partno) + whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0); + else + whole = bdgrab(bdev); + module_put(disk->fops->owner); put_disk(disk); if (!whole) |