On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I am not an expert on the tradeoffs on the kernel side and don't
have a
real strong opinion there. But I do think if floppy drives aren't available
by default, there should be some documentation somewhere that tells people
how to enable their floppy drives. That isn't necessarily the job of the
kernel maintainers.
You're asking for a non-trivial amount of work for an ever (and I mean
rapidly) diminishing set of users. That is why this is unreasonable.
--Kyle
Maybe at first boot people could get asked.
Maybe a drive could be looked for once and the result remembered. (I expect
that a lot less people move floppy drives around than use them.)
Maybe it could be on an FAQ.
Maybe it could be mentioned in the release notes. (Though I think this change
first affected f12, I don't remember running accross any notice before I
first ran into the problem.)