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Re: dsvfs & ide-floppy ?

To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: dsvfs & ide-floppy ?
From: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:23:33 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, devfs mailing list <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <200107271530.f6RFUf803340@mobilix.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > I found that ide-probe.c fails to set the "removable" flag of the
> > device, and hoped that fixing this would solve the
> > problem. Unfortunately that's not the case.
>
> Can you send a patch so I can see exactly what you did?

It's rather trivial :-)

--- 2.4.7/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c.orig  Fri Jul 27 15:51:21 2001
+++ 2.4.7/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c       Fri Jul 27 15:51:24 2001
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
                                                printk("cdrom or floppy?, 
assuming ");
                                        if (drive->media != ide_cdrom) {
                                                printk ("FLOPPY");
+                                               drive->removable = 1;
                                                break;
                                        }
                                }
Martin

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