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Message-ID: <20070205094947.GA32384@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:49:47 +0100
From:	Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
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 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> > 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?
> > 
> > :)
> 
> Other than with the ISA drivers example, at least everyone has the 
> hardware... ;-)

Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely.

Well, at work i probably have an USB floppy lying around somewhere,
but i doubt that it uses floppy.c ;-), 
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg  | "Well, surrounding them's out." 
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