RFC: re-enable auto loading of floppy driver when the PNP info says there is a floppy

[Kyle McMartin]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I am not an expert on the tradeoffs on the kernel side and don't have a
> real strong opinion there. But I do think if floppy drives aren't available
> by default, there should be some documentation somewhere that tells people
> how to enable their floppy drives. That isn't necessarily the job of the
> kernel maintainers.
> 

You're asking for a non-trivial amount of work for an ever (and I mean
rapidly) diminishing set of users. That is why this is unreasonable.

--Kyle

> Maybe at first boot people could get asked.
> 
> Maybe a drive could be looked for once and the result remembered. (I expect
> that a lot less people move floppy drives around than use them.)
> 
> Maybe it could be on an FAQ.
> 
> Maybe it could be mentioned in the release notes. (Though I think this change
> first affected f12, I don't remember running accross any notice before I
> first ran into the problem.)