From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>

hfs_fill_super in 2.6.5 returns -EIO instead of -EINVAL if a valid supe=
block isn't found.  So mount_block_root in init/do_mounts.c bails out before
trying to mount the root device as XFS.


---

 25-akpm/fs/hfs/super.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN fs/hfs/super.c~wrong-return-value-in-hfs_fill_super fs/hfs/super.c
--- 25/fs/hfs/super.c~wrong-return-value-in-hfs_fill_super	Mon Apr 12 13:54:36 2004
+++ 25-akpm/fs/hfs/super.c	Mon Apr 12 13:54:36 2004
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ static int hfs_fill_super(struct super_b
 		if (!silent)
 			hfs_warn("VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev %s.\n",
 				hfs_mdb_name(sb));
+		res = -EINVAL;
 		goto bail2;
 	}
 

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