Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

From: Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 15:47:37 EST

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> "if you haven't upgraded your hardware in 10 years, why are you upgrading
> your OS?"
>
'Cause retrocomputing is fun, and selective retrocomputing even more so.

> [...] no, 2.4 won't necessarily work with your old 4.77MHz ISA card
> that has an original ST-506 controller on it that people used on their
> old 8088's).
>
> I don't think I've ever seen one, in fact.

You want the one I still have in storage down in the basement somewhere?
There are also a couple of 20-MByte MFM HDs there. ;-)

I'll happily donate the stuff to whoever commits to keeping the
kernel driver for it alive.

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