From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755494Ab2C1HfB (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:35:01 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:45127 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755223Ab2C1He7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:34:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:34:54 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Josh Boyer , Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: revert floppy disable halt warning Message-ID: <20120328073454.GC22885@gmail.com> References: <20120311093853.04f049c2@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net> <20120327162633.654c8d7e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120328064008.GA12735@gmail.com> <4F72BBCE.1060307@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F72BBCE.1060307@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/27/2012 11:40 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > No objections from me. > > > > Please resubmit against latest -tip, we unified the idle > > routines which likely interacts with that patch. > > To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of > flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold > to run DOS. Since DOS did no power management of any kind, > including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed > to the much higher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT > caused some of these systems to fail. > > They were by far in the minority even back then. This information should be added to the changelog. Thanks, Ingo