RFC: re-enable auto loading of floppy driver when the PNP info says there is a floppy

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:04:09 -0400,
  Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 17:36 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently looking into fixing:
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565693
> > 
> > The easiest way to do this would be to remove the always modprobe floppy
> > code from anaconda and rely on udev for floppy driver loading.
> 
> Sigh, and you're probably trying to modprobe floppy because someone
> somewhere thinks driver disks are a good idea.

I occasionally use them for transferring data between some old laptops and
machines running Fedora. Occasionally I have also used them for driver disks,
though all of my computers currently are on the last bios version they are ever
likely to get.

As things went in the other discussion, it isn't hard to get floppies to
work, it's hard finding out what the issue is and how to fix it. Now that
I know I need to run modprobe it isn't a big deal for me. But this information
is not readily available to people and can cause significant problems for
people who stumble accross it.