LWN: Comments on "Five new stable kernels"

No more Rio 500 driver?

pr1268 — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 03:41:36 +0000

I was just being facetious. :-)

I suppose it's kinda interesting how that device had its own specialized driver in the Linux Kernel when later similar devices might've just been equally served by the USB mass storage driver. But then again, the Rio 500 predated the iPod (and other competing mass-storage music players) by almost two years, IIRC.

64 MB is barely enough for around one hour of low-fidelity MP3. My, how times have changed...

No more Rio 500 driver?

nivedita76 — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:19:01 +0000

Read the commit log.. the driver's apparently not been used since 2001.

No more Rio 500 driver?

pr1268 — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 03:48:57 +0000

Does this mean that I won't be able to use my shiny 64MB Rio 500 anymore??