From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:21:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031618510.8175@i5.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100603161513.60370e98@nehalam>
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Maybe putting all back together in a threaded_irq would be safest.
Yes. That floppy driver could easily be a good case for using those
threaded irq's. The problem, of course, is to find somebody motivated
enough. The code-base really is pretty dang ugly, and it might be hard to
do it incrementally, I think.
(And starting from scratch is likely not a great idea either - while
_some_ of the ugliness comes from the odd irq-driven state machine code, a
lot of it also comes from trying to handle all those floppy formats etc)
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-03 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-03 17:15 Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 19:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 21:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 22:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 23:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-06-09 5:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-03 22:32 ` Andreas Mohr
2010-06-03 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-04 15:12 ` Nick Bowler
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