On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 18:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines > > will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives > > attached, and the ACPI function that's supposed to return a list of > > drives usually returns a mixture of falsehoods and untruths. Merely > > havig a floppy controller is enough to get the floppy driver loaded, > > which then hangs for ages looking for a drive. > > I think it's sad that we're sacrificing hardware support for boot times. > > We should probe for everything by default. Users who don't have a floppy > drive and want to save some boot time can blacklist the driver manually. It seem much more intelligent to add a package owners of floppies can install, so that 99.9% of the others do not have to wait forever for no reason. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
