Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ..."

[Mikael Pettersson]

Cal Peake writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Commit 88baf3e85af72f606363a85e9a60e9e61cc64a6c:
 > 
 >  "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ro/rw status in underlying gendisk"
 > 
 > causes an annoying side-effect. Upon first write attempt to a floppy I get 
 > this:
 > 
 > $ dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
 > dd: writing `/dev/fd0': Operation not permitted
 > 1+0 records in
 > 0+0 records out
 > 
 > Any successive attempts succeed without problem. Confirmed that backing 
 > out the patch fixes it.

I can confirm that I got the exact same mis-behaviour in -rc1.
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