Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752265AbXBFPAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:00:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752272AbXBFPAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:00:00 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:32795 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752262AbXBFO77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:59:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:57:18 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Sunil Naidu Cc: Stefan Seyfried , Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070206145718.GC1828@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Sunil Naidu , Stefan Seyfried , Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <20070131011340.GP3754@stusta.de> <20070131012428.GA31759@kroah.com> <20070131021431.GR3754@stusta.de> <20070205094947.GA32384@suse.de> <8355959a0702060537jbd96e96sc10772f72f9491b3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8355959a0702060537jbd96e96sc10772f72f9491b3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 30 On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:07:50PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually > > vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely. > > I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do > use Floppy on Linux ;-) > Maybe by 2.6.30 or so... The release of any new kernel doesn't make all existing hardware on the planet stop working. I still get requests to enable drivers in the Fedora kernel for 10 year old ISA sound cards. In some parts of the world, buying a new computer isn't an option. One of Linux's strengths is that we keep working on old hardware without forcing the user to upgrade their system every time like certain commercial OS's. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/