Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2012 09:25:21 -0700 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling |
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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
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