USING CLAUDE CODE TO MODERNIZE A 25-YEAR-OLD KERNEL DRIVER

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This dev modernized the ftape Linux kernel driver, which hadn't been updated in 25 years and was necessary for recovering data from old QIC-80 tapes. He used Claude Code to update the driver to be compatible with modern Linux kernels, addressing deprecated functions and build issues. Despite requiring some manual adjustments and prior kernel module knowledge, Claude Code made the process really fast comparatively.