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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:20:42 +0100
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
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On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 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.
>
> If anybody is interested...? (non newbies would be welcome too of course)
>
Sounds like a fun little project. I'll bite.

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