Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 6 authors, 2019-08-08

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership

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:
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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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
Thanks for doing this!

Best regards,
								Pavel

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