Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030351AbXAaRYI (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:24:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030377AbXAaRYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:24:07 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:53436 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030351AbXAaRYE (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:24:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:24:10 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070131172410.GV3754@stusta.de> References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <20070131011340.GP3754@stusta.de> <20070131012428.GA31759@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 39 On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > > > 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? > > Doing a from-scratch rewrite of floppy.c only supporting new > hardware and no obscure formats ("newfloppy.c") would be an excellent > newbie project imho. This means for someone who is still pretty > new, but wants to get their fingers wet with more complicated changes. > > Then over time (old-)floppy.c could be phased out. >... Considering how widespread floppies are, these two sentences are contradictions. If the goal is to phase out the old floppy driver, a new driver will have to gain support for more or less all hardware the old driver supports... > -Andi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/