linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Message-ID: <20070131021428.GQ3754@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:14:28 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:19:15AM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> >Would someone from your long list of people e.g. be willing to maintain
> >drivers/block/floppy.c ?
> 
> I have a floppy drive!  Will have to go buy some disks though.  What's
> wrong with it?

There isn't something specific wrong.

It's simply that the last time someone completely understood this 120 kB 
driver was in the last millenium.

That comes up every few months when some bug report arrives or in the 
cases when a patch breaks the floppy driver.

> Trent

cu
Adrian

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