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Authored by ivy on May 10 2025, 11:36 PM.
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no one uses floppy disks anymore. move fd utilities into a new package.

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ivy requested review of this revision.May 10 2025, 11:36 PM

Floppies might be a tough thing to waste the fd namespace on. What if we called it something that was still short but less ambiguous like floppies, similar to how we have manuals?

i appreciate the concern but i don't know what else we'd use "fd" for - it's not like we need a package of file descriptors (in case people run out). since all the tools start are called fd* and floppy disks were historically /dev/fd* this seems like a good name.

Imho, "fd" is a fine name... we'll likely retire the driver soon after we retire the i386 kernel. Keeping for 15, so the split makes sense.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 11 2025, 1:05 AM