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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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On 2015-03-16 at 11:47, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>> So do you want to fix the floppy passthrough code? I don't even know
>> how to fix it. I don't even know what's wrong with it, other than that
>> something's ought to be wrong.
> Having a driver to pass-through hardware next to nobody has anymore is
> one thing.  But maintaining special cases in the generic block layer for
> it is another thing altogether: media handling is different, and the
> difference is not fully encapsulated in the driver (at least last time I
> checked).
>
> Can anybody tell me why spending developer time on floppy passthrough is
> a justifiable investment?
>
> If not, let's drop it and move on.

Do you want to do it? I don't want to be held responsible for it. ;-)

Max