Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership
From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2019-08-08 07:43:28
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From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2019-08-08 07:43:28
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Hi! On Wed 2019-07-31 17:47:40, Denis Efremov wrote:
Hi All, On 18.07.2019 01:03, Jiri Kosina wrote:quoted
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:quoted
I don't think we really have a floppy maintainer any more,Yeah, I basically volunteered myself to maintain it quite some time ago back when I fixed the concurrency issues which exhibited itself only with VM-emulated devices, and at the same time I still had the physical 3.5" reader.
For the record, I still have three or maybe more 3.5" drives here, if you want them, delivery to your office should be easy ;-).
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The hardware doesn't work any more though. So I guess I should just remove myself as a maintainer to reflect the reality and mark floppy.c as Orphaned.Well, without jokes about Thunderdome, I've got time, hardware and would like to maintain the floppy. Except the for recent fixes, I described floppy ioctls in syzkaller. I've already spent quite a lot of time with this code. Thus, if nobody minds
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