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

[Kevin Kofler]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> There's no way to get any feedback from the gameport driver as to (a)
> whether there's anything plugged in, or (b) what is plugged in. We could
> have the gameport driver automatically pull in analog but that'd
> probably break people doing midi or using some more specialised input
> device. It's a hard problem that only impacts a pretty tiny set of
> people, so it's prioritised somewhere below the hard problems that
> impact a pretty large set of people.

An Arch Linux user once pointed out to me that Arch (at the time) probed for 
analog joysticks using this udev rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", ENV{MODALIAS}!="?*", ATTRS{id}=="PNPb02f", 
RUN+="/lib/udev/load-modules.sh analog"
(They have since dropped that rule in their trunk.) I don't know whether it 
makes any sense though. I presume this is just testing for the presence of a 
gameport without caring about what is connected, right?

        Kevin Kofler