On Fri, Jun 16 2006, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Some time ago the cdrom open routine was changed so that we call the
> driver's open routine before checking to see if it is read only. However,
> if we discovered that a read write open was not possible and the open
> flags required a writable open, we just returned -EROFS without calling
> the driver's release routine. This seems to work for most cdrom drivers,
> but breaks the Powerpc iSeries virtual cdrom rather badly. The following
> patch just inserts the release call in the error path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
>
> It would be good is this could go into 2.6.17 as it affects the new distro
> kernels.
Looks good, I'll forward it for 2.6.17 inclusion.
--
Jens Axboe
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