There have been whispers about dropping floppy disk driver support in Linux, but on Monday, Andy Shevchenko posted some new patches to clean up supporting code for this pocketable magnetic storage medium from the (g)olden days of computing.
This update comes nearly three years after the last floppy update of any substance, according to Phoronix. Yes, it notes that this old code is effectively orphaned and/or unmaintained. However, floppy support persists in Linux, and maintenance like this consolidates previous separate patches, tidies up headers, and generally removes detritus from the kernel.
