On Thursday 19 July 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > None of these seems to make any difference whatsoever, except for BLKBSZGET
> > returning non-zero on a ramdisk or dcssblk device. I think we'd be best
> > off removing bd_block_size from the kernel altogether, and I'll remove
> > it from the axon-ram driver now.
>
> Yes, please. I even have patches that only pass struct gendisk to block
> device ->open, so this couldn't work anymore anyway. And yes, the
> ramdisk driver is doing some really odd things.
Any suggestion on what BLKBSZGET should return?
1) blocksize = 0 (same as it does already for most devices)
2) return -EINVAL
3) same as BLKSSZGET
4) return -ENOTTY
It probably doesn't matter much as any user of BLKBSZGET is
already broken, but it would be good to do the right thing
since it is a documented interface.
Arnd <><
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