On this 34th birthday since the Linux kernel was announced, coincidentally there’s a new patch series out there for one of the oldest drivers: the floppy disk driver.
It’s been nearly three years since last having any patches to the floppy disk driver worth mentioning while now a few code clean-ups are underway to this Linux kernel driver that’s long been effectively orphaned/unmaintained but persisting within the Linux kernel. Andy Shevchenko of Intel posted the latest patches providing a few clean-ups to the floppy code:
“There are a few places in architecture code for the floppy driver that may be cleaned up. Do it so.
Assumed to route via Andrew Morton’s tree as floppy is basically orphaned.
Changelog v2:
– combined separate patches sent earlier into a series
– added tags (Helge, Geert)
– fixed typo in the commit message (Geert)Andy Shevchenko (3):
floppy: Remove unused CROSS_64KB() macro from arch/ code
floppy: Replace custom SZ_64K constant
floppy: Sort headers alphabetically”
The patch series is now out for review for anyone interested in using floppy disks with Linux in 2025+.
