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

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Message-ID: <20120328064008.GA12735@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:40:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	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


* Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > (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?
> 
> And again 5 months later:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/28/313
> 
> Third time's a charm?  I'd buy someone a beverage if we actually went
> through our planned feature removal here...

No objections from me.

Please resubmit against latest -tip, we unified the idle 
routines which likely interacts with that patch.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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