Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Sunil Naidu]

On 2/7/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
>
> > On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <seife@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >>
> >> Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually vote
> >> for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely.
> >
> > I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do use
> > Floppy on Linux ;-)
>
> So, I am not the only person on earth who still makes sure the floppy gets
> included when building a new custom PC?

Yep, still floppies are useful. Example, when we buy a new device
(driver) with a floppy (sometimes by manufacturer). Plus, from the
customer (not user) POV, what's wrong in spending another $10 for a
FDD in a typical $1000 PC? Makes sense right ;-)

> Akemi

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