[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions toread/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> Ehh... Linus, both blkdev_get() and blkdev_open() should set ->i_blkbits.

Duh. I couldn't even _imagine_ that we'd be so stupid to have duplicated
that code twice instead of just having blkdev_open() call blkdev_get().

Thanks.

                Linus