Re: floppy support

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Once upon a time, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> anaconda loads the floppy driver by default when booting of the install
> DVD, because of driverdisk support, thus the anaconda team has been getting
> its share of bug reports wrt this. But AFAIK there are no such issues
> in RHEL-5, where we auto-load the floppy driver too, so something
> has changed in the kernel causing the hang when no drive is attached to the
> controller. I could swear I filed a bug against the kernel about this
> regression, but I cannot find it.

So, it sounds like it is a kernel bug, and the "fix" was to just ignore
it and stop loading the module.  <sigh>...
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