Re: [PATCH 4.7 146/186] floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > I have a problem with this patch. It only fixes one of the regressions
> > caused by the original change to the floppy driver. It does not address the
> > user land breakage of removing the NODELAY flag checks.
> 
> Does the same problem also happen in Linus's tree?  If not, any hints on
> the patch that might have fixed it there?

That's still an unresolved issue, and it's on my list to things to look 
into.

This particular patch though fixes a different issue, and should be 
applied to -stable.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs