Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756639Ab0FDPMV (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:12:21 -0400 Received: from mail.elliptictech.com ([209.217.122.41]:59838 "EHLO emergent.ellipticsemi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756325Ab0FDPMU (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:12:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:12:03 -0400 From: Nick Bowler To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andreas Mohr , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0 Message-ID: <20100604151203.GA19468@elliptictech.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Mohr , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20100603223259.GA4085@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Elliptic Technologies Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 891 Lines: 21 On 15:40 Thu 03 Jun , Linus Torvalds wrote: > Although one comment says it all: > > Cons: I ordered 5. After 45 days 3 of them have failed. Too late to return. > > so apparently you do need to order a lot of them to keep them going ;) I actually still have a real floppy drive in my primary desktop. Bought it new in 2001, and it still worked when I used it (once!) in fall 2008. That being said, it would have been quite frustrating if Linux oopsed when I tried to use this piece of hardware. It was frustrating enough to even find a single disk to put in it :). -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/