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
Date: Sun Sep 20 2009 - 22:59:56 EST


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