linux-kernel - Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:13:38 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	wim@....tudelft.nl, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7

On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 01:07 +0200, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> On my first message I stated:
> 
>  It looks to me that the code in floppy.c is quite old; no changes here.
>  So the bug is elsewhere in the kernel.
>  
> That was because the changelog at the beginning of floppy.c ended in 2003.
> Wouln't it be wise to keep these items updated?

Not really.

git commit log entries are a better place because they
can be relatively free-form, detailed and verbose.