linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] floppy: use single threaded workqueue

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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:22:28 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Amos Kong <kongjianjun@...il.com>
Cc:	david@...g.hm, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] floppy: use single threaded workqueue

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:07:49 +0800
Amos Kong <kongjianjun@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:22 AM,  <david@...g.hm> 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.
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