On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Christopher Brown wrote:
On 12 April 2010 21:50, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 06:38:59 +1000,
Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I think a related change was made to the Fedora udev scripts at about the
same time.
I definitely noticed a change. One day I went to copy some stuff to floppy
and I couldn't mount the floppy drive. I eventually found out what needed
to be done, so it isn't a big deal for me anymore. But my machines with
floppy drives still don't get /dev/floppy created unless I run modprobe floppy.
Which is what people who still use floppies (for some reason only
known to themselves) can do if they need the functionality.
One good reason: there are tons of oscilloscopes and other industrial
equipement that do their jobs pretty well, but the only way to transfer
images is to use floppy.
Another one: Do you own or code for any "obscure" old 8bit computer? No.
Your fault - this is a big fan. They also use floppy drives. Then the PC
drive you can use for emulators, transfers of your code etc.
The argument about this being required for places where they cannot
afford flash drives or CD-RW doesn't hold much weight either as flash
storage is so cheap and floppy disks so scarce and have such small
capacity that floppy drives are all but useless.
And what about dropping CDROM support? This would definitely solve
this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453095 stupid bug which
is bothering people for almost two years. And is also related to
anaconda.
--
Christopher Brown
Adam Pribyl
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