linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] floppy: revert floppy disable halt warning

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:26:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: revert floppy disable halt warning

(cc some x86 greybeards)

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:38:53 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:

> Remove the stupid floppy disable halt warning. It is meaningless since
> the API is local to floppy driver.  Our boot scripts check for the
> floppy drive, and this causes the warning to trigger every time. This
> confuses support, breaks automated tests that look for backtraces on
> boot,  and adds no value.  
> 
> The message is being displayed to the wrong audience, it looks like it
> was intended as a compromise of a long discussion on LKML about
> supporting older x86 hardware; but users don't know or understand what
> it is saying.
> 
> If you want to change halt handling then just fix
> the floppy driver, don't whine about it.
> 
> ...
> 
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c	2012-03-11 09:27:52.866459327 -0700
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c	2012-03-11 09:28:29.286579201 -0700
> @@ -1037,7 +1037,6 @@ static void floppy_disable_hlt(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	WARN_ONCE(1, "floppy_disable_hlt() scheduled for removal in 2012");
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&floppy_hlt_lock, flags);
>  	if (!hlt_disabled) {
>  		hlt_disabled = 1;

It would have been nice to have provided a pointer to this "long
discussion on LKML".  I tried for a while, then gave up.

In my search I came across
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1104.0/00461.html which
does indeed remove all the disable_hlt() code as well as the warning
and the feature-removal-schedule.txt record.  Why didn't we merge that?
Why shouldn't we merge that now?


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