On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, Everybody! > > Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very > happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom?
Nobody removed anything; it's still there, in 3.6.3. I'm not using it, but I can select it without problems. > This removal has been done in a somewhat peculiar manner. The config > option was called CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, and used to be at <Device > Drivers>/<Block Devices>. It is now not visible there. It's visible here. > However, Typing '/' BLK_DEV_FD in 'make menuconfig' returns its > documentation, saying BLK_DEV_FD is dependent upon > CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC. This latter variable isn't visible > anywhere. It's defined for you if the ARCHitecture (as the name implies) supports floppies. It's set =y in all my kernels. > I tried setting ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC by hand in .config, but that didn't > help. 'make menuconfig' just unset it again of its own accord. Then I > inserted BLK_DEV_FD into .config by hand and built the kernel. I haven't > tested it yet. > > All this seems rather strange. Why shouldn't I be able to use my floppy > drive? Your kernel config/setup has something really weird. ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC is a boolean variable that it's set automatically for you, since it's arch dependant. You cannot set it (nor unset it, AFAIK). May I recommend to completely uninstall your sources package and delete /usr/src/linux (after a proper backup, of course), install them again, and do a make oldconfig (after restoring your old .config)? Because ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC is something you should not to even think about. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
