Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <xzp1xq91oei.fsf at dwp.des.no>
            des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI
:    IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI
:    devices, and load the appropriate module.

There's some ongoing work to make this easier to do.  There are some
issues with doing this, but nothing that can't be overcome.  Every PCI
driver in the tree will likely need to change in some form to make
this happen, however.

Warner