From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org
Cc: jonmasters@gmail.com, cp@absolutedigital.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jcm@jonmasters.org,
torvalds@osdl.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ..."
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122141628.41f3134f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590511220356x75a951f1t8a36d0556a940751@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-22 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-16 5:47 Cal Peake
2005-11-16 8:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 11:22 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-19 3:44 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-21 3:36 ` Cal Peake
2005-11-21 11:59 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-22 3:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 4:21 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-22 7:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 11:56 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-22 22:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-23 4:47 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-28 18:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-28 20:33 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-29 22:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-30 1:15 ` Jon Masters
2005-11-16 10:50 ` Mikael Pettersson
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2005-11-23 17:39 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-11-23 18:02 ` Jon Masters
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