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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership
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From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:31:05 -0600
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On 7/31/19 9:22 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:53:22AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 7/31/19 8:47 AM, Denis Efremov wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> On 18.07.2019 01:03, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't think we really have a floppy maintainer any more,
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I basically volunteered myself to maintain it quite some time
>>>> ago back when I fixed the concurrency issues which exhibited itself
>>>> only with VM-emulated devices, and at the same time I still had the
>>>> physical 3.5" reader.
>>>>
>>>> The hardware doesn't work any more though. So I guess I should just
>>>> remove myself as a maintainer to reflect the reality and mark floppy.c
>>>> as Orphaned.
>>>
>>> Well, without jokes about Thunderdome, I've got time, hardware and
>>> would like to maintain the floppy. Except the for recent fixes,
>>> I described floppy ioctls in syzkaller. I've already spent quite
>>> a lot of time with this code. Thus, if nobody minds
>>
>> Great, can't see anyone objecting to doling out some floppy love.
> 
> Whatever that involves, I don't like the sound of it.

Floppy love? It's not that hard.

This is where we need GIFs in kernel communication...

> Here's a belated Ack if you can add it:
> 
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Added, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe