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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:43:22 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership
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Hi!

On Wed 2019-07-31 17:47:40, Denis Efremov wrote:
> Hi All,
>=20
> 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.

For the record, I still have three or maybe more 3.5" drives here, if
you want them, delivery to your office should be easy ;-).

> > 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.
>=20
> 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

Thanks for doing this!

Best regards,
								Pavel

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