I have multiple Linux hosts on a SAN, making autodetect of raid devices
dangerous. This problem should be solved by specing an 'md=' for each device on
the cmdline, but unfortuantly it's broken.

Between a few emails to mingo and several wasted hours, I've managed to figure
out the problem. However I don't know how to fix it; it *should*
be working from what I can see.

My only guess right now is because I'm using gcc 2.95.2, and it's doing
something funky. (And I do not have another version to test with right now.)

The problem is during parsing of the md= line, name_to_kdev_t() is not
returning the proper k_dev_t for the device. (IE /dev/sdd5 returns as
16:45 /dev/sde5 returns as 20:05.)

However if I pass static text to name_to_kdev_t(), it works. I first believed
it was in how the str pointer was sent to name_to_kdev_t(), (running over into
comma's, instead of seperate terminated strings) I
fixed that but the problem persists.

My current test for loop is attached. The hard coded device names
printk out to a proper major:minor. The devicenames obtained from
'str' don't. I don't see the bug in here or name_to_kdev_t()...

I'm testing this with the following cmdline:
root=/dev/md0 raid=noautodetect md=0,/dev/hdd5,/dev/hde5
md=1,/dev/hdd6,/dev/hde6  md=2,/dev/hdd7,/dev/hde7
md=3,/dev/hdd8,/dev/hde8 mem=524288K


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