Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753962Ab0HWWWc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:22:32 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:35471 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751971Ab0HWWWb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:22:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:22:28 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Amos Kong Cc: david@lang.hm, Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] floppy: use single threaded workqueue Message-ID: <20100823152228.2e23ebc0@nehalam> In-Reply-To: References: <20100609183449.110905403@vyatta.com> <20100609115403.75ebb6cb@nehalam> <20100611103223.799d3ce0@nehalam> <20100721195547.GA3448@amt.cnet> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1403 Lines: 36 On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:07:49 +0800 Amos Kong wrote: > 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. I did some testing, saw a glitch but wasn't sure if it was a 2.6.35 or floppy specific. But haven't investigated furthur because of impending Vyatta product release. Plan to revisit this week. -- 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/