Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Jun 15 2016 - 03:09:19 EST
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> Surprising or not, the thusly compiled kernel ran fine and I could
> handle floppies like before! (open(/dev/fd0,O_ACCMODE) succeeds.)
Thanks for testing.
Now next question -- what do you actually want to achieve with passing
O_ACCMODE to open()?
O_ACCMODE should primarily be used as a mask to use when extracting access
mode bits from fcntl(F_GETFL) call.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs