From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261436AbULAW1M (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:27:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261470AbULAW1M (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:27:12 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:19637 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261436AbULAW1I (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:27:08 -0500 Message-ID: <41AE4515.3090100@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:26:29 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 References: <20041130095045.090de5ea.akpm@osdl.org><20041130095045.090de5ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20041201211036.GQ2650@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20041201211036.GQ2650@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: >>... >>All 618 patches: >>... >>add-acpi-based-floppy-controller-enumeration.patch >> Add ACPI-based floppy controller enumeration. >>... > > > As far as I understood the discussion, this patch should be dropped. Does this patch help or hinder operation on laptops with external pluggable floppies? And why wouldn't ACPI be a good thing here? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me