[parted-devel] [PATCH] Exclude floppy from device scan

[Phillip Susi]

Come to think of it, that's worthy of a NEWS entry..

On 1/4/2012 2:15 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Floppies can't be partitioned anyhow, and some people have
> misconfigured bios that thinks there is a floppy when there
> actually isn't, and trying to scan it causes hanging.
> ---
>   libparted/arch/linux.c |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libparted/arch/linux.c b/libparted/arch/linux.c
> index 6693cd7..07fc97c 100644
> --- a/libparted/arch/linux.c
> +++ b/libparted/arch/linux.c
> @@ -2125,6 +2125,7 @@ _skip_entry (const char *name)
>   		{ "dm-",	sizeof ("dm-") - 1	},
>   		{ "loop",	sizeof ("loop") - 1	},
>   		{ "ram",	sizeof ("ram") - 1	},
> +		{ "fd",		sizeof ("fd") - 1	},
>   		{ 0, 0 },
>   	};
>