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

[Christopher Brown]

On 14 April 2010 09:01, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, I think I just had an idea which might solve this in a way
> that makes everyone happy, without depending on people getting their
> BIOS settings right.
>
> How about we drop die-floppy-die.patch, so that the driver will autoload
> again, and then add a script to initscripts that checks if any
> floppy drives were detected, and if not, then it blacklists the floppy
> driver ?

Sounds sane but would suggest this is something done for F14 Alpha
rather than F13.

> This way we only get the boot delay caused by the floppy driver probing
> (in case of no floppy) once (on the first boot), and we make the floppy
> drive work out of the box for people who still have and use one.

Are you also offering to be point man for kernel bug reports? :)


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Christopher Brown