From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:12:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100604151203.GA19468@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031535570.8175@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On 15:40 Thu 03 Jun , Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Although one comment says it all:
>
> Cons: I ordered 5. After 45 days 3 of them have failed. Too late to return.
>
> so apparently you do need to order a lot of them to keep them going ;)
I actually still have a real floppy drive in my primary desktop. Bought
it new in 2001, and it still worked when I used it (once!) in fall 2008.
That being said, it would have been quite frustrating if Linux oopsed
when I tried to use this piece of hardware. It was frustrating enough
to even find a single disk to put in it :).
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-03 17:15 floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0 Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 19:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 21:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 22:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 23:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 5:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 22:32 ` Andreas Mohr
2010-06-03 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-04 15:12 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
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