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    SubjectRe: Free Linux Driver Development!
    On Tuesday 06 February 2007 11:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
    >On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote:
    >>On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
    >>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    >>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
    >>> vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely.
    >>
    >>I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do
    >>use Floppy on Linux ;-)
    >>Maybe by 2.6.30 or so...
    >
    >How about not even then? There are few uses for the floppy drive today
    >within linux, this is true. BUT, that floppy is often the only was

    Gahh, s/was/way above. Old fingers seem to have minds of their own... :)

    >software can be gotten from a vintage computer and published, or from a
    >publishing site back to that vintage computer. Please don't take away
    >our last data path to what is to many of us, a very old and trusted dear
    >friend. OS9, and later Nitros9, on a TRS-80 Color Computer, was my
    >teacher about unix-like systems, running a multiuser/multitasking
    >operating system on a machine with only 64k of ram, although my current
    >machine has 2 megs in it. And I occasionally still miss some of the
    >things I could do on that little machine that I have not been able to do
    >since, like start an assembly that generates an output listing, and
    >switch to another monitor or window & list that listing to the screen a
    >maximum of 256 bytes behind the writing of that listing to the disk file
    >it was going to.
    >
    >The floppy may not be usefull to linux anymore, but in support of other
    >older formats, it is priceless.
    >
    >>> Stefan Seyfried
    >>
    >>~Akula2
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