On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 12:18 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:58:35 -0400, > Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The problem is, EVERYONE has a floppy controller and NOBODY(*) has a > > floppy disk drive. PNP only reports the presence of the controller, not > > the drive. > > > > Ergo: FAIL for everyone, for the sake of some ancient crap that nobody > > except for a vocal minority of approximately three people cares about. > > 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. > > 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.) The thing was the window where this patch applied was about 3-4 weeks in rawhide, it went in upstream, it slowed boot down on lots of my machines, I nuked it. So Fedora behaviour should not have changed across this patch. Dave. > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
