Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:47:06 +0000 | From | Jon Masters <> | Subject | Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ..." |
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On 11/22/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > 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.
Ok, as you please. It's probably going to take something much more ugly to make this work with things as they stand - I'll get something out at the weekend.
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