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

Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21T23:56:39Z

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)

i've started adding it, just to realize that bootsect.S already turns off
the floppy motor.

so i think the issue got solved the easy way ;)

Ingo