From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E289EC3F2CD for ; Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB283222C2 for ; Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727286AbgB2X22 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:28:28 -0500 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:34012 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726786AbgB2X22 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:28:28 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 550 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:28:27 EST Received: from [192.168.0.2] (188-167-68-178.dynamic.chello.sk [188.167.68.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CB2B47A0469; Sun, 1 Mar 2020 00:19:16 +0100 (CET) From: Ondrej Zary To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] floppy driver cleanups (deobfuscation) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 00:19:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Willy Tarreau , Denis Efremov , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-block" References: <20200224212352.8640-1-w@1wt.eu> <20200229141354.GA23095@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202003010019.14391.linux@zary.sk> Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 29 February 2020 16:58:11 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:14 AM Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > So if you or Denis think there's some value in me continuing to explore > > one of these areas, I can continue, otherwise I can simply resend the > > last part of my series with the few missing Cc and be done with it. > > It's fine - this driver isn't worth spending a ton of effort on. > > The only users are virtualization, and even they are going away > because floppies are so small, and other things have become more > standard anyway (ie USB disk) or easier to emulate (NVMe or whatever). > > So I suspect the only reason floppy is used even in that area is just > legacy "we haven't bothered updating to anything better and we have > old scripts and images that work". > > Linus > There are real users with real floppy drives out there. -- Ondrej Zary