A Hang In The Linux Kernel Can Happen If Trying To Read A Broken Floppy Then Ejecting It

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Hang In The Linux Kernel Can Happen If Trying To Read A Broken Floppy Then Ejecting It

Going into 2022 the Linux kernel's floppy driver continues to see new code improvements and fixes...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.17-Floppy

[ALRBP]

Floppies will never disappear ! They are now known to everyone as the standard symbol for "save", even though no one saves anything on a floppy today and lots of young people never actually used one (Oh no ! I'm old !).

[Krteq]

...you can expect to see floppy patches still flopping around the kernel.

Hehe

"I see what you did there" /meme

[skeevy420]

Floppies will never disappear ! They are now known to everyone as the standard symbol for "save", even though no one saves anything on a floppy today and lots of young people never actually used one (Oh no ! I'm old !).

We could just update the icon...

micro-sd-card-icon-01-.jpg?1459754397&s=091ea08e6a9874933cd6f7b79ea7c73c.jpg

Or tell kids that a the floppy icon is a first gen SD card and see how long it takes them to figure out we're all lying.

[schmidtbag]

We could just update the icon...

micro-sd-card-icon-01-.jpg?1459754397&s=091ea08e6a9874933cd6f7b79ea7c73c.jpg

Or tell kids that a the floppy icon is a first gen SD card and see how long it takes them to figure out we're all lying.

Funny thing is, 30 years from now, a uSD card could likely become an irrelevant symbol too. I don't see it disappearing any time soon but I don't see it lasting forever either.
I've always wondered why nobody used a hand with a pen for the icon, since most other related icons all have analog representations, and a hand with a pen would represent writing.

[baka0815]

Floppies will never disappear ! They are now known to everyone as the standard symbol for "save", even though no one saves anything on a floppy today and lots of young people never actually used one (Oh no ! I'm old !).

Floppy disks are like Jesus- they died to become the icon of saving.

schmidtbag A hand with a pen is mostly used to "edit" (or change) something, not saving the changes. So I think that chance is lost.

[Etherman]

We demand benchmarks!

[oleid]

Benchmark of different floppy drive brands?

[bug77]

"A Hang In The Linux Kernel Can Happen If Trying To Read A Broken Floppy Then Ejecting It - I know, it's been bugging me for a while

[rene]

The last time I used a floppy was just a year ago, when I updated the Open Firmware of my IBM B50 PowerPC servers ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iN-ynOvxUQ