Re: [PATCH 00/10] floppy driver cleanups (deobfuscation)

[Ondrej Zary]

On Saturday 29 February 2020 16:58:11 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:14 AM Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So if you or Denis think there's some value in me continuing to explore
> > one of these areas, I can continue, otherwise I can simply resend the
> > last part of my series with the few missing Cc and be done with it.
> 
> It's fine - this driver isn't worth spending a ton of effort on.
> 
> The only users are virtualization, and even they are going away
> because floppies are so small, and other things have become more
> standard anyway (ie USB disk) or easier to emulate (NVMe or whatever).
> 
> So I suspect the only reason floppy is used even in that area is just
> legacy "we haven't bothered updating to anything better and we have
> old scripts and images that work".
> 
>               Linus
> 

There are real users with real floppy drives out there.

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Ondrej Zary