Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Alan Cox
2002-05-08T21:54:49Z

> That suggests to me that IDE floppy needs to be fixed to open
> even when no media is present when provided with the O_NONBLOCK
> flag, which would be consistant with how CDROMs, and everything
> SCSI works.
>
> As for ide-scsi, I thought that was going to go away?

If we move to a more general device tree and you can set the mode you wish
to use when accessing the device it can do. Right now the "mode" so to
speak is implied by the file you open rather than by how you send it
commands and what you ask it to do