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Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support (www.phoronix.com)
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The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices.

On the old hardware side, the Linux floppy disk driver continues to see bug fixes once in a while... With Linux 7.4, a few more fixes have trickled in. Denis Efremov of Oracle fixed a possible stack out of bounds issue with the floppy driver as reported by the Kernel Address Sanitizer. He also fixed a regression in the floppy driver from a code refactoring that took place all the way back in 2017. Now the flags for the floppy drive struct should be properly handled.

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago

For someone who still uses floppies, I appreciate this update.

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    [–] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I can't parse the title.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    This is why we used to have sub-editors in the Before Times. They would catch and fix shitty titles - and a bunch of other grievous journalistic errors - before publication.

    Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support

    "Updates to the Linux 7.4 block device subsystem span 40+ years of personal computing, with floppy disk driver fixes as well as cutting-edge Apple M4 NVMe device support. "

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Dude is doing this all alone, isn't he?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    I think so. And I understood the title, because I've been using Linux on and off for the last 30 years, so maybe he's hitting his target market. And a simple kernel release summary is hardly Pulitzer prize stuff, so I'm happy to cut him some slack.

    But I still bemoan the loss of sub-editors in general.

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