lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2012]   [May]   [14]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling
Hello,

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:02:07AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Block layer now handles O_EXCL in a generic way for block devices.
>
> The semantics is however different for floppy and all other block devices,
> as floppy driver contains its own O_EXCL handling.
>
> The semantics for all-but-floppy bdevs is "there can be at most one O_EXCL
> open of this file", while for floppy bdev the semantics is "if someone has
> the bdev open with O_EXCL, noone else can open it".
>
> Remove the floppy-specific handling and let the generic bdev code O_EXCL
> handling take over.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Patch looks good to me but why do we want to change this at this
point?

Thanks.

--
tejun


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2012-05-14 19:01    [from the cache]
©2003-2011 Jasper Spaans