It’s 2021 and the Linux kernel’s floppy driver is still seeing the occasional patch

The Linux kernel's floppy driver dates back to the original days of the kernel back in 1991 and is still being maintained thirty years later with the occasional fix.

Somewhat surprisingly, a patch was sent in to the Linux kernel's block subsystem ahead of the Linux 5.12 merge window around the floppy code.

Floppies are awesome and I'm sure there's tons of older machines out there - especially in corporate settings - that are still rocking a floppy drive for backwards compatibility reasons. Might as well keep the code up to snuff.