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

[Christopher Brown]

2010/4/14 Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz>:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Christopher Brown wrote:
>
>> On 12 April 2010 21:50, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 06:38:59 +1000,
>>>  Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The thing was the window where this patch applied was about 3-4 weeks in
>>>> rawhide, it went in upstream, it slowed boot down on lots of my
>>>> machines, I nuked it.
>>>>
>>>> So Fedora behaviour should not have changed across this patch.
>>>
>>> I think a related change was made to the Fedora udev scripts at about the
>>> same time.
>>>
>>> I definitely noticed a change. One day I went to copy some stuff to
>>> floppy
>>> and I couldn't mount the floppy drive. I eventually found out what needed
>>> to be done, so it isn't a big deal for me anymore. But my machines with
>>> floppy drives still don't get /dev/floppy created unless I run modprobe
>>> floppy.
>>
>> Which is what people who still use floppies (for some reason only
>> known to themselves) can do if they need the functionality.
>
> One good reason: there are tons of oscilloscopes and other industrial
> equipement that do their jobs pretty well, but the only way to transfer
> images is to use floppy.

So they can manually load the driver then...

> Another one: Do you own or code for any "obscure" old 8bit computer? No.
> Your fault - this is a big fan. They also use floppy drives. Then the PC
> drive you can use for emulators, transfers of your code etc.

I'm not sure where you are going here...

>> The argument about this being required for places where they cannot
>> afford flash drives or CD-RW doesn't hold much weight either as flash
>> storage is so cheap and floppy disks so scarce and have such small
>> capacity that floppy drives are all but useless.
>
> And what about dropping CDROM support? This would definitely solve this
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453095 stupid bug which is
> bothering people for almost two years. And is also related to anaconda.

Now you've completely lost me.

-- 
Christopher Brown