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

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Aug 30 13:09:51 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:26:39 +0100,
  Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

To make this more precise, woulf the appropriate way to do this would be to
perhaps put floppy.conf or joystick.conf in /etc/modprode.d?
With a post install script to run modprobe manually?

Are pretty much all joysticks handled by analog or is that situation more
complicated?


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