György Balló [2011-09-29 13:42 -0000]: > @Martin: I think that this patch not against the long delay fix. It > reports that floppy is always available, and not probe it on boot.
Yes, I've seen that, but it would again cause users of udisks to try and do something with the floppy, and any access to a floppy controller which doesn't have a floppy attached causes a 30 second freeze. It might be that this patch makes it work again for computers with a floppy (fixing this case is actually trivial), but it's next to impossible to continuously guarantee that the "no floppy" case (which is the common one) keeps working. I fixed this kind of bug in way too many places to have any faith left that we can sensibly support floppies in the modern desktop software infrastructure. Also, frankly I have no interest in doing so, as working around the regressions is just way more effort than it's worth. I'm aware that this means "floppies are broken with Linux" :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 Title: Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit/+bug/441835/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
