linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Message-ID: <20070206161117.GF6131@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:11:17 +0100
From:	Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried 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:
> >>>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.
> 
> Is that your model of how the kernel should work? Take out anything you don't personally need?

Oh. I must have forgotten those smilies.
;-)

> I'm guesstimating the 20-30% of the old laptops I rehab on Linux for kids who have none lack the 
> ability to boot off CD. Or write a CD, for that matter. The ability of Linux to run on old 
> hardware is another advantage over commercial systems.

Yes, i know.
-- 
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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