Re: [PATCH 06/21] ide-floppy: remove struct idefloppy_flexible_disk_page

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Sat Jan 12 2008 - 15:20:55 EST


On Saturday 12 January 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

[...]

> > - header = (idefloppy_mode_parameter_header_t *) pc.buffer;
> > - floppy->wp = header->wp;
> > + floppy->wp = pc.buffer[3] & 0x80;
>
> This is not an equivalent transformation:
>
> header->wp is 0 or 1
> pc.buffer[3] & 0x80 is 0 or 0x80
>
> It seems to work fine for ->wp (because it is needlessly defined as 'int')
> but may seriously confuse set_disk_ro() and thus bdev_read_only() users.
>
> Should be fixed to '(pc.buffer[3] & 0x80) ? 1 : 0' (or something similar).

Update: this change belongs to patch #10 (+ the need for such change in
patch #6 is a hint that #10 should be before #6)
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