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

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 18:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines
> > will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives
> > attached, and the ACPI function that's supposed to return a list of
> > drives usually returns a mixture of falsehoods and untruths. Merely
> > havig a floppy controller is enough to get the floppy driver loaded,
> > which then hangs for ages looking for a drive.
> 
> I think it's sad that we're sacrificing hardware support for boot times.
> 
> We should probe for everything by default. Users who don't have a floppy 
> drive and want to save some boot time can blacklist the driver manually.

It seem much more intelligent to add a package owners of floppies can
install, so that 99.9% of the others do not have to wait forever for no
reason.

Simo.

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