Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:06:35 +0300 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system |
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Stephane Eranian wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:10:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > It is in fact possible that the floppy failure might just be from some > > timing-dependent thing, and the slowdown itself is the problem. > > > > Although I do find that a bit unlikely, since machines these days are > > about a million times faster than they used to be, so even if it's > > unnecessarily slow, it shouldn't be noticeable for a floppy drive. > > > I don't know enough about the floppy driver to comment on this but I would > agree with you here.
I know nothing about floppy, but I guess the reason is floppy_disable_hlt().
Sorry for the offtopic question, is it really needed? According to grep, floppy is the only one user of disable_hlt().
Oleg.
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