x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()

Plan to remove floppy_disable_hlt in 2012, an ancient
workaround with comments that it should be removed.

This allows us to remove clutter and a run-time branch
from the idle code.

WARN_ONCE() on invocation until it is removed.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index 77fc76f8aea9..20aea9b511b5 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -1038,6 +1038,7 @@ static void floppy_disable_hlt(void)
 {
         unsigned long flags;
 
+        WARN_ONCE(1, "floppy_disable_hlt() scheduled for removal in 2012");
         spin_lock_irqsave(&floppy_hlt_lock, flags);
         if (!hlt_disabled) {
                 hlt_disabled = 1;