-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/23/2010 03:03 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently the loader is unconditionally loading the floppy driver, > 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. > > Before investing time into coding this, I would like to receive > some feedback on this idea. > Here's how I look at it, asking myself a few questions: What is Fedora's target? It is weighted towards leading edge, new stuff, with some lesser amount of backwards compatibility. But the goal isn't to be able to keep running on my old 500MHz firewall. How many new systems have floppy drives? None, or close enough to none that rounding down is allowed. How many older systems is Fedora running on? I don't know, but the number decreases with each release. How many people are going to be made happier by a faster boot? Alot. And the number will increase, not decrease. How many people are going to be annoyed by having to explicitly load the floppy driver? Not many -- especially if it is clearly documented as to how to do it in 'all the right places(tm)'. So I vote for making floppy driver loading an option that the user has to pass a kernel argument for, and for clearly documenting the change and what's needed to make it work the old way so that when the question is inevitably asked there is a nice URL to point them to. - -- Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat / Port Orchard, WA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS6jg7BF+jBaO/jp/AQJqZgf/SUIRchoIBg56SBiYyEPiKME0s+GHi8Op 1zHf2tI2jyzLup5gxujFof3MikkGXJrrL9n/a3N87Ak3XZM7qU9tD6jKbTtPLvbj wh+Ba17GVlQ5mlMTxUzSG1ViBytzqNdQbgsOPSr+MrOIjpZKsrZ8BP5299sANX5o V0cRxhrfwwaGdPQoDxhaA3Hk9wLl24B91+xTttCkft6be4Z2kzdoeHuwhYNVZgC6 CRsZdfJMVTHTUKAIl3i2kD8MqM6CbTma4/ZNfwhrUPFZzCOCZjJUIOwKd/94ruMJ hbfsfV0Tnlt1tVr63fJUs61N9Ku6AtNG6E6zKKmGbCTRvq2WajgOSQ== =TD0S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
