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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.
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