Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752055Ab0HVJH4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:07:56 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:43632 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751855Ab0HVJHy (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:07:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=SGohHYb5eV4XbvfM/I4skXxYbwM0UPqvTDF32I0ErUn5N9hdDQSukTCHNX9af+AEbV 9ED7X/i8XTamMibsrSRLa2kE26zfUDlC+dzqhRJ45+noYQ0KZu5aAu3+h0AKPWInB+aq 7yO+UrRMS4ajr6XH23/erYco53G3R6udbsTCw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100609183449.110905403@vyatta.com> <20100609115403.75ebb6cb@nehalam> <20100611103223.799d3ce0@nehalam> <20100721195547.GA3448@amt.cnet> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:07:49 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] floppy: use single threaded workqueue From: Amos Kong To: david@lang.hm Cc: Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 31 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:22 AM, wrote: > I don't use floopies much anymore, but I've got a fair number of machines > around that have floppy drives (purchased across about 6 years with from a > couple vendors and a variety of motherboards) > > If someone can go to the effort of documenting what testing you want done I > may be able to do it. > > I would be installing new builds onto the machines to test them, so you can > do testing that locks up the boxes without impacting anything. > > the easier it is to do the tests, the more machines I can test on (bootable > CD images that I could just pop in and then check the screen later would be > ideal ;-) > > these systems will not have network access. > > David Lang Hello Davide, Any feedback of testing this patch on real hardware with Linus' methods ? Thanks. Amos -- 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/