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Linux's Floppy Disk Driver Code Sees Some Cleanups In 2025
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: Assumed to route via Andrew Morton's tree as floppy is basically orphaned.
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