[gentoo-user] Is this a new kernel bug? Or not.

[walt]

I just updated my oldest machine from gentoo-sources-3.14.37 to 3.14.38,
which introduced some new behavior that I find annoying, but I'm not sure
it's really a bug. (It could be a feature, I suppose):

This (old) machine still has a floppy disk (I told you it's old) and of
course during boot the kernel wants to know what hardware is attached and
it tries to read from the floppy and prints an error message to the console
that /dev/fd0 can't be read (because it has no floppy disk inserted).

But this new kernel 3.14.38 tries to read the floppy disk every time I type
mount at a bash prompt, and then spams the screen with errors about /dev/fd0.

My real puzzle, I guess, is that this new behavior was just now introduced
after *37* patches to kernel-3.14, which has always behaved the same way
until today(!).

Could/should kernel patch number 38 really introduce new behavior?

This is not the first time I've asked myself this question, and I don't
know the answer so now I'm asking you guys.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a new kernel bug? Or not.

[David W Noon]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:24:29 -0700, Walt (w41...@gmail.com) wrote about
[gentoo-user] Is this a new kernel bug?  Or not. (in
mgk42u$3d5$1...@ger.gmane.org):

 But this new kernel 3.14.38 tries to read the floppy disk every time I type
 mount at a bash prompt, and then spams the screen with errors about 
 /dev/fd0.

Does your /etc/fstab have noauto on the line for the floppy?
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Dave  [RLU #314465]
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