Comment 333 for bug 441835

György Balló [2011-09-29 13:42 -0000]:
> @Martin: I think that this patch not against the long delay fix. It
> reports that floppy is always available, and not probe it on boot.

Yes, I've seen that, but it would again cause users of udisks to try
and do something with the floppy, and any access to a floppy
controller which doesn't have a floppy attached causes a 30 second
freeze. It might be that this patch makes it work again for computers
with a floppy (fixing this case is actually trivial), but it's next to
impossible to continuously guarantee that the "no floppy" case (which
is the common one) keeps working. I fixed this kind of bug in way too
many places to have any faith left that we can sensibly support
floppies in the modern desktop software infrastructure. Also, frankly
I have no interest in doing so, as working around the regressions is
just way more effort than it's worth.

I'm aware that this means "floppies are broken with Linux" :(