Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755540AbZIUC7t (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755419AbZIUC7s (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:48 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f199.google.com ([209.85.210.199]:36435 "EHLO mail-yx0-f199.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755346AbZIUC7r (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=N3FOzHqWDlRJ86QXS+1gzdRvqLfEus4Pg+lj2q4vgtDUdyyunKDZu7WJcu1IoXY3M0 v06gLY7fw7ExxwC/k/7f+wgsLr4NYqE8+uDXDa/F7QjDSD+px1cibwrjUR5JcdiUWlBu YZpxi0wLRvQOPyk0bWgGvOMrKuEzOdcVC8puk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20090918150541.GB9307@kroah.com> <20090918195005.GA11726@elte.hu> <21d7e9970909191843l6fbb835bme509c18cedfd728c@mail.gmail.com> <20090920150842.GF11621@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:59:50 +1000 Message-ID: <21d7e9970909201959j1268103fg9d88625072e089a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) From: Dave Airlie To: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg KH , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 891 Lines: 21 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > Distros ship these matches for forever. It's a modprobe.conf blacklist entry > that's needed, or better disable thew floppy in the BIOS, if there isn't one > to use. > The patch only went into the kernel last release or maybe one before, and it came from Ubuntu's kernel, we instantly got a lot of people giving out about udev getting slow, where we get very few reports from people about not having their floppy accessible. Disabling the PNP ids was the lesser of two evils, since floppys really aren't that common, but BIOSes with floppy drives enabled are. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/