>Yes. If you see how to do it - patches are welcome. One of the possible
>ways is to create a structure when you register driver, remove it upon
>rmmod, replace ->b_dev and friends with pointers to that structure and
>make the removal of this beast invalidate the buffers.
Wouldn't it be easye
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> >Flush
>>
>> What is so shocking about flushing away the cache for a
>> write-protected floppy?
>
>Erm... The fact that final close() will do it anyway?
Well it shouldn't, that would be a useless performa
The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores floppy ioctl functionality,
which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7. It now tests for fake
ioctl's, so their should be no interaction with read-only mounts:
--- 2.4.0-test8/linux/drivers/block/floppy.cMon Sep 11 20:09:28 2000
+++ linux/driv
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> Moreover you seem to have an interesting definition of "most": for
>> many of those ioctls, sysctl would be rather clumsy: FDRAWCMD,
>> FDSETPRM, FDCLRPRM, FDDEFPRM, FDFMTBEG, FDFMTTRK, FDFMTEND, FDFLUSH,
&
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
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>> Ok, now could you tell me a way how to easily detect a "fake inode",
>> and I rewrite my "restore ioctl functionality patch" in a way as not
>> to break floppy root mounts.
>
>s/root//
>
&
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> >Probably the clean solution would be to add a character device per
>> >controller (/dev/fdc), turning eject /dev/fd0 into
>> >% echo eject 0 > /dev/fdc0
>>
>> Why do that for floppies, when w
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>>
>> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
>> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
>
>No. Th epatch breaks things. You cannot use "permission" at that point,
>and
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
>> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
>
>I would reserve "broken" for original state. What's wrong with "if you
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> >FYI, here is a chunk of our conversation - I just realized that most of it
>> >was private with AV and Linus so it is reasonable that you didn't see it.
>>
>> Thanks for mailing me this. Well, I w
>FYI, here is a chunk of our conversation - I just realized that most of it
>was private with AV and Linus so it is reasonable that you didn't see it.
Thanks for mailing me this. Well, I would have actually preferred to
take part in this discussion when it first took place, rather than
learning a
The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
--- 2.4.0-test8/linux/drivers/block/floppy.cMon Sep 11 20:09:28 2000
+++ linux/drivers/block/floppy.cSat Sep 16 15:03:39 2000
@@ -3435,6 +3435,8 @@
static int fd_ioctl(s
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