From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:54:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100609115403.75ebb6cb@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006091144120.4506@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > When going through floppy driver addressing some of the timing
> > bugs, I also saw these leftover things that ought to be cleaned up.
>
> Ack on them all as far as I'm concerned. I suspect the _real_ bugs in
> floppy.c are about various paths not holding the floppy_lock spinlock, but
> the patches all look fine and certainly don't make anything worse.
>
> Mind re-sending them after 2.6.35, though? (Or maybe somebody like Greg
> wants to queue them up in their drievr trees)
>
> Linus
Current plan is to convert all the timers and old BH code to go through
a single workqueue. This avoids all the races and cleans up the cancellation
logic as well without having lots of other changes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-09 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 18:34 [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/8] floppy: initialize debug jiffies offset Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 2/8] floppy: remove unnecessary inlines Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 3/8] floppy: silence warning during disk test Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] floppy: use atomic type for usage_count Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 5/8] floppy: cmos attribute should be static Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 6/8] floppy: fix signed/unsigned warnings Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 7/8] floppy: use wait_event_interruptible Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:34 ` [PATCH 8/8] floppy: use warning macros Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-09 18:46 ` [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches Linus Torvalds
2010-06-09 18:54 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-06-09 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-11 17:32 ` [RFC] floppy: use single threaded workqueue Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-11 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-21 19:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-22 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-22 22:22 ` david
2010-07-22 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-22 9:07 ` Amos Kong
2010-08-23 22:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 6:43 ` [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches Thomas Meyer
2010-06-11 17:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-13 17:23 ` Thomas Meyer
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