issueing a 'DIOCGPART' at every read. Avoid re-reading the label at
every format-verify (or read/write on the block-device) by fetching the label
at open-time and caching it until we close.
the stack, and remove the no-longer-necessary PHOLD()/PRELE() calls
in fdformat().
(This eliminates 1/3 of the instances of PHOLD()/PRELE() in the kernel code.)
XXX We still have too many mostly-redundant floppy drivers.
it to determine the boot device: mvme68k, pc532, macppc, ofppc. Those
platforms should be changed to use device_register(). In the mean time,
those ports defined __BROKEN_DK_ESTABLISH.
where the floppy driver would wedge because a motor-on timeout would
be cancelled by another I/O operation cancelling a motor-off timeout.
From enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>.
timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
the 68901. Do this now by _assigning_ ~<bit_to_clear> instead of the
previously used 'andb ~<bit_to_clear>'. The latter caused a rwm-cycle that
caused a race condition to happen when an interrupt arrived between the
Read and Modify-Write.
Anyway, this solved my hanging keyboard problem.
leo