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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:47:28 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:44:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > floppy driver built in.  It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > nothing else to do that.
> 
> this should then be done by the floppy boot code?

Sounds like a better idea to me.  Although I'm not one to try it out. 8)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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