floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:41 +0100, 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.
> 
> That seems like a clear opportunity to add a simple "configure legacy
> hardware" button to anaconda, that would do the modprobe floppy/gameport
> etc. stuff so it is loaded. Perhaps there could be switches: I have
> these legacy hardware:
> Floppy disk
> Analog joystick
> .... whatever

Or just add floppy-support and analog-joystick-support packages that 
include appropriate modprobe.conf fragments, and have documentation that 
instructs the user to install them.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org