>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 performance hit.
> Oh, and the fact
>that we have a g
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
> >You know, I have nothing against having it that way for CDs and Zips.
> >And you have an interesting idea of old-fashioned - I'ld say that
> >echo(1) was in place way before ioctl(2)...
>
> You're right, echo is indeed older than ioctl. However, ioct
>
>
>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,
>> FDRESET, FDTWADDLE, FDEJECT. Or do you r
>
>
>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> 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//
>
>fake means NULL ->i_sb, nothing fancy about that. IS_RDONLY(
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,
> FDRESET, FDTWADDLE, FDEJECT. Or do you really me
>
>
>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 we still eject CD-Roms, Zips, "the
>> old-fashioned way"
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 we still eject CD-Roms, Zips, "the
> old-fashioned way" with ioct
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? Oh, and the fact
that we have a generic ioctl() doing the same.
> > and format on write-protected flopp
>
>
>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 would have actually preferred to
>> take part in th
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
> 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//
fake means NULL ->i_sb, nothing fancy about that. IS_RDONLY() used to b
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 would have actually preferred to
> take part in this discus
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>Subject: Re: bug in blkdev <-> VFS interaction. (oops) (fwd)
>
>On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> So this is why I suggested moving the blkdev_get() into read_super(): at
>> that point root moun
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To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bug in blkdev <-> VFS interaction. (oops) (fwd)
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So this is why I suggested moving the blk
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