On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:32:22 +0100
"Uwe Bugla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> this patch fixes the floppy mount bug (i. e. regression) in kernel
> 2.6.21-rc1. It was inspired by Stephane Eranian. It was tested on an Intel P4
> 1800 MHz
> (Intel ICH4 chipset) and on an AMD Athlon XP 1800 MHz (Silicon Integrated
> Systems chipset 740, 5513).
> My deep thanks and respect go to:
> Stephane Eranian, Linus Torvalds, Jiri Slaby. You are truthfully real men and
> reliable, accurate, fine chaps. It feels great to have you in this world-wide
> community!
> Would you still call the whole i386 architecture "a small number of
> machines", Mister Andrew Morton? If yes, in how far please?
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
> @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@
> current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;
> } else {
> /* loop is done by the caller */
> + local_irq_enable();
> cpu_relax();
> }
> }
Linus reverted the offending patch "[PATCH] i386: add idle notifier"
on Feb 26, so this fix should no longer be needed, and 2.6.21-rc2 should
be working again.
Hopefully Stephane will fold this fix into any future version of that patch,
if appropriate.
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