linux-kernel - Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:59:50 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: 
	Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs 
	maintenance disaster)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> 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.
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