On Saturday 29 February 2020 16:58:11 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:14 AM Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > So if you or Denis think there's some value in me continuing to explore > > one of these areas, I can continue, otherwise I can simply resend the > > last part of my series with the few missing Cc and be done with it. > > It's fine - this driver isn't worth spending a ton of effort on. > > The only users are virtualization, and even they are going away > because floppies are so small, and other things have become more > standard anyway (ie USB disk) or easier to emulate (NVMe or whatever). > > So I suspect the only reason floppy is used even in that area is just > legacy "we haven't bothered updating to anything better and we have > old scripts and images that work". > > Linus > There are real users with real floppy drives out there. -- Ondrej Zary
