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I just updated my oldest machine from gentoo-sources-3.14.37 to 3.14.38, |
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which introduced some new behavior that I find annoying, but I'm not sure |
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it's really a "bug". (It could be a "feature", I suppose): |
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This (old) machine still has a floppy disk (I told you it's old) and of |
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course during boot the kernel wants to know what hardware is attached and |
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it tries to read from the floppy and prints an error message to the console |
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that /dev/fd0 can't be read (because it has no floppy disk inserted). |
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But this new kernel 3.14.38 tries to read the floppy disk every time I type |
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"mount" at a bash prompt, and then spams the screen with errors about /dev/fd0. |
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My real puzzle, I guess, is that this new behavior was just now introduced |
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after *37* patches to kernel-3.14, which has always behaved the same way |
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until today(!). |
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Could/should kernel patch number 38 really introduce new behavior? |
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This is not the first time I've asked myself this question, and I don't |
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know the answer so now I'm asking you guys. |
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