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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> What?  Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
> that floppy.c is?  Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
> kernel development never to be seen again?

Doing a from-scratch rewrite of floppy.c only supporting new
hardware and no obscure formats ("newfloppy.c") would be an excellent 
newbie project imho.  This means for someone who is still pretty
new, but wants to get their fingers wet with more complicated changes.

Then over time (old-)floppy.c could be phased out.

If anybody is interested...? (non newbies would be welcome too of course)

-Andi