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Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7

From Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7
Date 2016-06-15 09:10 +0200
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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

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Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-06-13 14:20 +0200
  Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl> - 2016-06-14 20:50 +0200
    Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-06-15 09:10 +0200
      Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl> - 2016-06-15 13:50 +0200
      Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-06-15 15:30 +0200
        Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-06-15 16:20 +0200
          Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl> - 2016-06-16 00:50 +0200
            [PATCH] floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-06-16 10:00 +0200
          Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl> - 2016-06-16 01:10 +0200
            Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-06-16 01:20 +0200
            Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-06-16 01:20 +0200
  Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-06-14 21:10 +0200

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