linux-kernel - Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Message-ID: <20070131172410.GV3754@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:24:10 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.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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