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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:22:21 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership
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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.

> Applied, thanks.

Here's a belated Ack if you can add it:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Either way, thanks Denis.

Will