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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
