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Subject: Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7
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On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 01:07 +0200, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> On my first message I stated:
> 
>  It looks to me that the code in floppy.c is quite old; no changes here.
>  So the bug is elsewhere in the kernel.
>  
> That was because the changelog at the beginning of floppy.c ended in 2003.
> Wouln't it be wise to keep these items updated?

Not really.

git commit log entries are a better place because they
can be relatively free-form, detailed and verbose.