Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:37:57 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ..." |
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Andrew Morton 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.
I think that's best, because there are few people (relatively) using floppy, and those who are probably are used to old behaviour. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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