Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ..." |
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Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/22/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > That still does the wrong thing. Put in a write-protected floppy, try to > > write to it and it says -EROFS. Then pop the WP switch and try to > > write to it again and it wrongly claims EPERM. A second attempt to > > write will succeed. > > The problem is that we need to wait until the floppy driver next > checks the read status on the drive. I think to get it completely > right will take moving bits of the floppy driver around, unless I'm > being stupid. I'm planning to do that too though. >
In the meanwhile I think we should revert back to the 2.6.14 version of floppy.c - the present problem is probably worse than the one which it kinda-fixes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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