Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:16:28 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org
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Subject: Re: floppy regression from "[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct
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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.
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