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 01:25:36PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 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.

Ok, the latter two aren't, but still. :) (Yes, I agree, it should be
release noted or something.)