Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Nov 23 03:32:09 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:16:40 -0600,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 21:24:41 -0500,
>   Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> > (Yes, the messages would be in dmesg.)
> 
> [    2.691809] acpi_fde: failed to evaluate _FDE
> [    2.692151] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> [    2.724514] floppy: loaded
> 
> /dev/fd0 was created.

I switched to the -62 kernel and /dev/fd0 was NOT created. (I wanted to make
sure I hadn't put something on that machine to make the floppy available
at boot.)

So the patch looks good from the perspective of people who have floppies.
I think I can test it on a machine that doesn't have a floppy drive
tomorrow.


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