From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030228AbXAaQRR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:17:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030229AbXAaQRR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:17:17 -0500 Received: from cir-el.real.com ([207.188.23.7]:53681 "EHLO cir-el.real.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030228AbXAaQRQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:17:16 -0500 Message-ID: <45C0C13A.40209@real.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:18:02 -0800 From: Martin Seidl User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development! References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <20070131011340.GP3754@stusta.de> <20070131012428.GA31759@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When you say newbie? Do you mean coding newbie? Or... just someone who hasn't done a driver before? either way I'd like to be somewhat involved in the process so I see how things are done. --martin 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. > > If anybody is interested...? (non newbies would be welcome too of course) > > -Andi > - > 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/