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

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:09:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7

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