Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> writes: [...] > So do you want to fix the floppy passthrough code? I don't even know > how to fix it. I don't even know what's wrong with it, other than that > something's ought to be wrong.
Having a driver to pass-through hardware next to nobody has anymore is one thing. But maintaining special cases in the generic block layer for it is another thing altogether: media handling is different, and the difference is not fully encapsulated in the driver (at least last time I checked). Can anybody tell me why spending developer time on floppy passthrough is a justifiable investment? If not, let's drop it and move on. [...]
