On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:03 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Currently the loader is unconditionally loading the floppy driver We had this debate about even bothering to autoload the driver in the distribution for <removed>, and it was concluded that we would not. > this sometimes causes huge delays on systems which do not have a floppy > drive, see for example (there are other bugs too): > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574492 > > The proper thing to do here would be IMHO, to make the loading > of the floppy driver conditional on the BIOS declaring PNP id > PNP0700. Which is on which udev normally autoloads the floppy driver, > except that the Fedora kernels are patched to not autoload the floppy > driver at all. Right, they generally don't load it, and <removed> won't. I specifically brought that up when I reviewed every Fedora patch going into <removed>. > Before investing time into coding this, I would like to receive > some feedback on this idea. We're not even autoloading by default. The above logic is reasonable, but IMO so is requiring a command line parameter. As a child of the 80s, I barely remember disks larger than 5.25", the nostalgic in me has a place for them, but they are really very very dead. Jon. P.S. <removed> == popular Enterprise Linux. This is a public list and is indexed by search engines. I like to not mention certain topics here. If you would like to discuss this in detail, please send internal email. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
