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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:25:21 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling
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Hello,

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:02:07AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Block layer now handles O_EXCL in a generic way for block devices.
> 
> The semantics is however different for floppy and all other block devices,
> as floppy driver contains its own O_EXCL handling.
> 
> The semantics for all-but-floppy bdevs is "there can be at most one O_EXCL 
> open of this file", while for floppy bdev the semantics is "if someone has 
> the bdev open with O_EXCL, noone else can open it".
> 
> Remove the floppy-specific handling and let the generic bdev code O_EXCL
> handling take over.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Patch looks good to me but why do we want to change this at this
point?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun