Drop Floppy Drive Support from kernel?
Bug #1732013 reported by
Bryan Quigley
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
| Bionic |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
1) Proposed for 18.04
2) Whichever kernel 4.14 or 4.15
Can we drop Floppy support from the kernel for Bionic?
I see very small activity about Floppy drives in the 2012 timeframe (LP and AskUbuntu), but I can't see much of a use for floppy drives in 2018.
Advantages to remove
* It's being removed for various cloud vendors - https:/
* It removes attack service. Hard to quantify but QEMU has gotten hit by a bad floppy disk exploit (https:/
Revision history for this message
| Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote Missing required logs. | #1 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| tags: | added: bionic |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
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