On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:59:17AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> 
> > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at drivers/block/floppy.c:1041 setup_rw_floppy+0x2f7/0x310 
> > [floppy]()
> > Hardware name: System Product Name
> > floppy_disable_hlt() scheduled for removal in 2012
> 
> Yes.  I don't understand the point of that warning:
> http://bugs.debian.org/667501
> 
> Ben and Greg, would
> 
>   f6365201d8a2 x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt()
>                and enable_hlt() facility
> 
> be a candidate for inclusion in the 3.0.y and 3.2.y trees?
> 
> An alternative would be to revert 3b70b2e5fcf6 ("x86 idle floppy:
> deprecate disable_hlt()", 2011-04-01), which in principle seems a
> little safer.

Gabor, does applying this patch fix this issue?

greg k-h
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