Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:11:17 +0100 | From | Stefan Seyfried <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Stefan Seyfried 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: > >>>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? > >>> > >>>:) > >>Other than with the ISA drivers example, at least everyone has the hardware... ;-) > >Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually > >vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel completely. > > Is that your model of how the kernel should work? Take out anything you don't personally need?
Oh. I must have forgotten those smilies. ;-)
> I'm guesstimating the 20-30% of the old laptops I rehab on Linux for kids who have none lack the > ability to boot off CD. Or write a CD, for that matter. The ability of Linux to run on old > hardware is another advantage over commercial systems.
Yes, i know. -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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