Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:12:22PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > >> that floppy.c is? Do you w

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 01/02/07, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > > that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2007-01-31 19:24:54 +0100, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much different hardware does the (old)floppy.c do? I imagine that > today, where floppies phase out, there will be, in descending order: > > * USB floppy drives (atm handled by sd.c, could be better to have sf.c) >

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 13:58, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:24:54PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> How much different hardware does the (old)floppy.c do? I imagine that >> today, where floppies phase out, there will be, in descending order: >> >> * USB floppy drives (atm handled b

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:24:54PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > How much different hardware does the (old)floppy.c do? I imagine that > today, where floppies phase out, there will be, in descending order: > > * USB floppy drives (atm handled by sd.c, could be better to have sf.c) > * FDCs on m

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 18:24, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >>

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Seidl
When you say newbie? Do you mean coding newbie? Or... just someone who hasn't done a driver before? either way I'd like to be somewhat involved in the process so I see how things are done. --martin Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie ins

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31/01/07, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like a fun little project. I'll bite. Let me know when you have something and I'll go buy those floppies, test it and fix a bug or two if I find 'em. Sure. Will do. Thanks. --

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Trent Waddington
On 1/31/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds like a fun little project. I'll bite. Let me know when you have something and I'll go buy those floppies, test it and fix a bug or two if I find 'em. Trent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? D