Re: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 03 2010 - 18:45:17 EST




On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> http://such001.reichelt.de/?SID=31BKCyV6wQAR8AAHJNE7U6761b7ea498b06ffe19b1e0abcdc120b;ACTION=444
> http://www.kmelektronik.de/shop/index.php?show=subgroup&group=53&subgroup=117&Sort=2
> http://www.arlt.com/index.php?cl=search&searchparam=floppy

Ok, ok. I admit it. I was being a bit facetious. You can still buy them
online. In fact, according to newegg, you can get them really cheap (the
USB floppy drives cost $20, but you can get a _genuine_ floppy drive for
$7.99.

Although one comment says it all:

Cons: I ordered 5. After 45 days 3 of them have failed. Too late to return.

so apparently you do need to order a lot of them to keep them going ;)

So here's a one-time offer: if you want to really fix that driver, I'm
willing to pay the $7.99 to buy the hardware for you. I won't touch it
myself with a 10-foot pole, though ;)

Linus
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