* Greg KH <[email protected]>:

| > > $ 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?

Yes, using patch¹ fix this issue with 3.0.48 and 3.2.32.

¹http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=x86-Remove-the-ancient-and-deprecated-disable_hlt-an.patch;att=1;bug=667501
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