Re: [PATCH] floppy: hide invalid floppy disk types

[Philip K.]

> Hmm, I would say that driver blacklisting is a more proper solution in
> this case. I doubt there are people with this issue and real floppy drives
> in their setup. Altering the default driver's initialization scheme seems
> superfluous to me.

As long as major distributions like Ubuntu ship the floppy module, there
are enough people who could be affected by this peculiar behaviour.
While I agree that blacklisting the module would be more elegant, I
still think that a patch that goes in this direction could help more
people, especially those who don't want or cannot solve kernel-related
issues.

> This will force users (if there are ones) who depends on this behavior
> to rebuild the kernel. blacklisting doesn't require kernel rebuild.

Are there floppy disks of unknown types? Our patch is intentionally
conservative: We won't hide false negatives. If the motherboard reports
an non-existent disk

If you're ready to think about it, we could consider extending the patch
to un-register the device if it can recognise that it's (probably) not
real. In our case, for example, fdisk reported that fd0 had a size of
4k, something think is a strong indicator that something's not right.

Alternatively, we could look into what the comment

	/* FIXME: additional physical CMOS drive detection should go here */

would imply. This particular bug can only affect fd0 and fd1, so if we
spent some more time, we could find something.

-- 
	With kind regards,
	Philip K.

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