linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches

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Message-ID: <20100609115403.75ebb6cb@nehalam>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:54:03 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > When going through floppy driver addressing some of the timing
> > bugs, I also saw these leftover things that ought to be cleaned up.
> 
> Ack on them all as far as I'm concerned. I suspect the _real_ bugs in 
> floppy.c are about various paths not holding the floppy_lock spinlock, but 
> the patches all look fine and certainly don't make anything worse.
> 
> Mind re-sending them after 2.6.35, though? (Or maybe somebody like Greg 
> wants to queue them up in their drievr trees)
> 
> 			Linus

Current plan is to convert all the timers and old BH code to go through
a single workqueue. This avoids all the races and cleans up the cancellation
logic as well without having lots of other changes.

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