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

[John5342]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:23, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:37:16 +0100,
>  Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'll need to test it. Right now I use explicit modprobe commands in
> rc.local, which isn't good for packages. I looked at modprobe.conf
> documentation and it doesn't seem like it uses those files to determine
> what to load, only what to do if it is loaded. So it may be that udev
> is really the correct place to do things.
>
> I'll investigate that. Once I know the right thing to do, the packaging
> should be pretty easy.

"man modules-load.d" looks promising too.

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