Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:24:10 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > > > What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > > that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from > > kernel development never to be seen again? > > Doing a from-scratch rewrite of floppy.c only supporting new > hardware and no obscure formats ("newfloppy.c") would be an excellent > newbie project imho. This means for someone who is still pretty > new, but wants to get their fingers wet with more complicated changes. > > Then over time (old-)floppy.c could be phased out. >...
Considering how widespread floppies are, these two sentences are contradictions.
If the goal is to phase out the old floppy driver, a new driver will have to gain support for more or less all hardware the old driver supports...
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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