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

[Bill Davidsen]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 11/22/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

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