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[PATCH] FAT: remove validity check of FAT first entry
authorHirofumi Ogawa <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:16:56 +0000 (18:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:16:56 +0000 (18:16 -0700)
commit5dfd31d1133be6b1c697c082900cc0e50d878639
treec6df2c092af672827b38591f74db72397cbc6353
parent97a28b9a991f5eee548fca291911d4d7bdf868eb
[PATCH] FAT: remove validity check of FAT first entry

The low byte of FAT's first entry must have same value with media-field.

So, I added that validity check for some case. In fact, in some case
this check detected non-FAT filesystem.  But in real world,
unfortunately too many devices is writing a wrong value.

This patch removes that validity check.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/fat/inode.c