On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I am not an expert on the tradeoffs on the kernel side and don't have a > real strong opinion there. But I do think if floppy drives aren't available > by default, there should be some documentation somewhere that tells people > how to enable their floppy drives. That isn't necessarily the job of the > kernel maintainers. > You're asking for a non-trivial amount of work for an ever (and I mean rapidly) diminishing set of users. That is why this is unreasonable. --Kyle > Maybe at first boot people could get asked. > > Maybe a drive could be looked for once and the result remembered. (I expect > that a lot less people move floppy drives around than use them.) > > Maybe it could be on an FAQ. > > Maybe it could be mentioned in the release notes. (Though I think this change > first affected f12, I don't remember running accross any notice before I > first ran into the problem.) _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
