2010/4/14 Adam Pribyl <pribyl@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. So they can manually load the driver then... > 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. I'm not sure where you are going here... >> 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. Now you've completely lost me. -- Christopher Brown _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
