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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Fix for proc/md (remove the 'kludge')
From:       Richard Guenther <zxmpm11 () student ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-01-19 13:25:41
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Hi!

I think, this patch is correct. It removes the 'kludge'
from procfs to support md. Since md is not supposed to
compile as a module, we need no extra symbols from proc.

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
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diff -u linux/drivers/block/md.c:1.1.1.1 linux/drivers/block/md.c:1.2
--- linux/drivers/block/md.c:1.1.1.1	Sun Jan 18 14:51:30 1998
+++ linux/drivers/block/md.c	Sun Jan 18 15:02:42 1998
@@ -846,6 +846,7 @@
 static struct proc_dir_entry proc_md = {
 	PROC_MD, 6, "mdstat",
 	S_IFREG | S_IRUGO, 1, 0, 0,
+	0, &proc_array_inode_operations,
 };
 
 static void md_geninit (struct gendisk *gdisk)
diff -u linux/fs/proc/root.c:1.1 linux/fs/proc/root.c:1.2
--- linux/fs/proc/root.c:1.1	Sun Jan 18 14:02:12 1998
+++ linux/fs/proc/root.c	Sun Jan 18 15:02:59 1998
@@ -342,11 +342,6 @@
 		if (dp->ops == NULL)
 			dp->ops = &proc_file_inode_operations;
 	}
-	/*
-	 * kludge until we fixup the md device driver
-	 */
-	if (dp->low_ino == PROC_MD)
-		dp->ops = &proc_array_inode_operations;
 	return 0;
 }
 

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