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

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> said:
> Making boot hang for long periods can easily be seen as 'Not working
> properly' and therefore make default floppy support 'not possible'.
> At least this is the reasoning I see and agree with.

How many systems are there that "hang forever" when the floppy module is
loaded?  I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without
floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of
them (99.9% in an earlier message).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.