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Hi, Everybody! |
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Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very |
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happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom? |
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This removal has been done in a somewhat peculiar manner. The config |
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option was called CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, and used to be at <Device |
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Drivers>/<Block Devices>. It is now not visible there. |
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However, Typing '/' BLK_DEV_FD in 'make menuconfig' returns its |
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documentation, saying BLK_DEV_FD is dependent upon |
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CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC. This latter variable isn't visible |
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anywhere. |
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I tried setting ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC by hand in .config, but that didn't |
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help. 'make menuconfig' just unset it again of its own accord. Then I |
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inserted BLK_DEV_FD into .config by hand and built the kernel. I haven't |
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tested it yet. |
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All this seems rather strange. Why shouldn't I be able to use my floppy |
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drive? |
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-- |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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