From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:24:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131172410.GV3754@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p7364anpkz5.fsf_-_@bingen.suse.de>
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-31 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 150+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 1:29 Free Linux Driver Development! Greg KH
2007-01-30 2:19 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-30 2:23 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 7:33 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-01-30 19:15 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-30 10:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-30 19:14 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-30 19:46 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:23 ` Diego Calleja
2007-01-30 20:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 21:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-01-31 21:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-31 22:04 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-01-30 13:45 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-30 19:12 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:40 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-30 19:47 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 17:30 ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 19:11 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 22:21 ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 19:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-30 19:55 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 17:45 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 17:55 ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 18:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-30 19:02 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 19:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 19:10 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:29 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 19:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 21:38 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 21:47 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 22:00 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:19 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:39 ` John W. Linville
2007-01-30 22:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 13:59 ` Erik Mouw
2007-02-01 14:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 22:39 ` Erik Mouw
2007-02-01 15:46 ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-01 16:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 17:48 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-01-30 22:14 ` Dave Airlie
2007-01-30 22:24 ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-30 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 13:34 ` David Hollis
2007-01-31 17:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:37 ` Bob Copeland
2007-02-01 5:52 ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 20:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-31 17:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 17:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 17:58 ` alan
2007-01-31 18:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 19:17 ` alan
2007-01-30 22:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:15 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:19 ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-01-30 22:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 4:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-01-31 12:49 ` Alan
2007-01-31 18:37 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-01-30 23:03 ` Alan
2007-01-31 17:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-31 17:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 17:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-02-07 14:03 ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-07 18:40 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 17:28 ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:54 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 21:46 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-30 22:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:50 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:05 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 23:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 23:29 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:45 ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-31 0:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 0:46 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 1:07 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-31 1:30 ` Greg KH
2007-02-07 10:30 ` Laurent Pinchart
2007-01-30 22:43 ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:52 ` Diego Calleja
2007-01-30 20:11 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 1:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-31 1:19 ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31 2:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-31 1:24 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 2:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-01-31 2:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-05 9:49 ` Stefan Seyfried
2007-02-06 13:37 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-02-06 14:57 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-06 16:30 ` Gene Heskett
2007-02-06 16:36 ` Gene Heskett
2007-02-06 21:14 ` Akemi Yagi
2007-02-06 22:15 ` floppy (Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, OT) Oleg Verych
2007-02-07 13:33 ` Free Linux Driver Development! Sunil Naidu
2007-02-07 13:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-08 0:43 ` David Lang
2007-02-06 15:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-06 16:11 ` Stefan Seyfried
2007-01-31 10:08 ` Rewriting floppy.c was " Andi Kleen
2007-01-31 9:20 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-31 9:32 ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31 9:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-31 16:18 ` Martin Seidl
2007-01-31 17:24 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-01-31 18:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-31 19:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 21:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-02-01 13:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-01 13:22 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-02-01 17:13 ` Al Viro
2007-01-31 17:41 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-01 5:46 ` Greg KH
2007-02-01 14:22 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-01 14:41 ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:08 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2007-01-30 19:49 ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:15 ` Andrew Lyon
2007-01-30 20:30 ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 13:29 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-02-04 18:19 ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 21:33 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-01-31 2:27 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-01-31 6:26 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 6:48 ` Kumar Gala
2007-01-31 20:01 ` Michael K. Edwards
[not found] ` <355711.50750.qm@web36602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
2007-02-04 18:20 ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 19:08 ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-02-05 8:13 ` Greg KH
2007-02-05 15:24 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-06 6:42 ` Greg KH
2007-02-06 13:35 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-02-06 17:01 ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 18:59 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-02-06 6:44 ` Greg KH
2007-02-06 8:29 ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 18:21 ` Greg KH
2007-02-07 7:12 ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-02-07 18:42 ` Greg KH
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