Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133838
udev tries to load floppy.ko for non-existant drive
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: Udev tries to load the floppy.ko module when I do not have a floppy drive. This produces an error when udev is started: FATEL: error inserting floppy Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-032-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start udev on a PC that does not have a floppy drive 2. 3. Actual Results: tried to load module and error message Expected Results: it should not have tried to load the floppy module thus no error message Additional info:
You can't probe for the presence of a floppy without loading a floppy driver.
Then how about getting rid of the error message?
It does. modprobe floppy >/dev/null 2>&1
Oh, I see where this is coming from now. udev manually creates /dev/fdX on start. Hence, any attempt to access them causes an autoload of floppy, which may or many not succeed. Since we're loading floppy in rc.sysinit, I don't think the manual udev creation is needed.
Thank you for the update. I await an update for testing.