Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 18:47:28 EST


On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:44:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
>
> > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > floppy driver built in. It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > nothing else to do that.
>
> this should then be done by the floppy boot code?

Sounds like a better idea to me. Although I'm not one to try it out. 8)

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