From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:55:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E3493C.1040706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261006440.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 02/26/2007 07:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The floppy is still pretty much the only user of native motherboard
> (aka i8237) DMA'ing for most people. Some old ISA sound-cards may do
> it, of course.
Other than these two, ECP parallel ports are the other remaining users.
Now, even though on a machine that still has a parallel port it might
usually indeed be set to ECP in its BIOS; having anything attached to
the port also use it as such seems quite seldom.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-26 18:06 bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-26 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 20:55 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-02-26 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 2:42 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 13:04 ` Alan
2007-02-28 12:20 ` Rene Herman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-25 18:29 Uwe Bugla
2007-02-25 21:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-02-26 3:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-02-24 17:54 Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 18:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-24 18:29 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 19:23 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 19:49 ` Ray Lee
2007-02-26 10:38 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 15:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 16:28 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 16:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-02-26 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 17:45 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-02-26 17:28 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-02-26 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
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