Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jun 15 2016 - 19:13:45 EST


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.