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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:09:51AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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?

That seems like it'd work.

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

Most are. There are some devices that need their own drivers, and as far 
as I know there's no defined PNP protocol for joysticks.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org