On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 14:55 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Making boot hang for long periods can easily be seen as 'Not working > > properly' and therefore make default floppy support 'not possible'. > > At least this is the reasoning I see and agree with. > > How many systems are there that "hang forever" when the floppy module is > loaded? I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without > floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of > them (99.9% in an earlier message). Don't put words in my mouth that I have never said please. I said: A) 99.9% of users do not needed the floppy anymore B) I said hang for "long periods" and not "forever", where here "long" is of course relative to modern machine boot times. A and B are not related of course, and that was clear from the context. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
