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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006091203190.4506@i5.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] floppy: cleanup patches



On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> 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.

That will definitely help. We still end up with the things that call the 
request queue directly as a second (nonworkqueue) thread, but I think 
that's what the floppy_lock has _traditionally_ protected against, so it 
might all work out and largely fix the locking.

			Linus
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