1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index 28002de783b6..f7e765a1d313 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
  */
 
 /*
+ * 1998/1/21 -- Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> -- devfs support
+ */
+
+/*
  * 1998/05/07 -- Russell King -- More portability cleanups; moved definition of
  * interrupt and dma channel to asm/floppy.h. Cleaned up some formatting &
  * use of '0' for NULL.
@@ -158,10 +162,6 @@ static int print_unex = 1;
 #define FDPATCHES
 #include <linux/fdreg.h>
 
-/*
- * 1998/1/21 -- Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> -- devfs support
- */
-
 #include <linux/fd.h>
 #include <linux/hdreg.h>
 
@@ -3714,12 +3714,6 @@ static int floppy_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
                 USETF(FD_VERIFY);
         }
 
-        /* set underlying gendisk policy to reflect real ro/rw status */
-        if (UTESTF(FD_DISK_WRITABLE))
-                inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->policy = 0;
-        else
-                inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->policy = 1;
-
         if (UDRS->fd_ref == -1 || (UDRS->fd_ref && (filp->f_flags & O_EXCL)))
                 goto out2;