Source: IT Home
Coinciding with the 34th anniversary of the Linux kernel, one of its oldest drivers—the floppy driver—received a new patch update this week.
We have noticed that the Linux floppy driver has long been in an “unmaintained” state. Although this type of hardware is rarely used in modern systems, the related code has not been removed from the Linux kernel.
Since the last update, it has been nearly three years since the Linux community has made any updates to it. This update was submitted by Intel’s Andy Shevchenko and mainly focuses on code cleanup. Shevchenko wrote in the patch notes:
There are some areas in the architecture code of the floppy driver that can be cleaned up, so let’s tidy it up. Since the floppy driver is basically in an isolated state, it is expected to be merged through Andrew Morton’s code tree.
The update log (v2) shows:
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Merged previously submitted patches into a single series;
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Added tags (Helge, Geert);
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Corrected spelling errors in the commit message (pointed out by Geert).
This patch includes three modifications:
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Removed unused CROSS_64KB () macro from arch/ code;
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Replaced custom SZ_64K constant;
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Sorted header files alphabetically.
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