From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4767C4332F for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229485AbiLXKLq (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:11:46 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48622 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229457AbiLXKLp (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:11:45 -0500 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA3E72AEE; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DDB760A5C; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6CD7C433D2; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1671876702; bh=Og4/i2N2GU2fHSbMoasfQOW1B25W94LO3VVi0+hvbpI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gjrnyvRLkV2dcwRYtOrxUP4SWkKMzNjKEX3OweCWHPuPUEZtf8X8eSnkO6On6WaGC cmkQzp+gMBgtPS6tXVLFtBsOPL6QY1ud1M6wPptxFrc1PvJz95b1AMoA1EXlQtzPF5 HBEPHFy/ZpkEmN2UEfOyqHQuLyuviu8IhZLhi5mlpnAuOyA5HltJPLz9inWK1tzT2n kcy3V7ZvCCxbnlo1DoXLJSRIyVT/R4ICeq3bHIj70GpkhA8eOyLpyyXnARBtuVuti7 v6CnEg6QIv8pnB0XQY2j9eQ76fwZCw7JbRP8Ebafjsch65GXAcxBq8qiK5E+Ad8c/0 JxKFKDLXMINzQ== Received: by pali.im (Postfix) id C7E4E720; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 11:11:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 11:11:39 +0100 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Thomas Maier , linux-block@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: remove driver. Message-ID: <20221224101139.sgvhr2n3pbrs4agm@pali> References: <20221202182758.1339039-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <20221224095353.w32xhmyzlft6qi4v@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 24 December 2022 11:03:27 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:53:53AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Friday 02 December 2022 19:27:58 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Way back in 2016 in commit 5a8b187c61e9 ("pktcdvd: mark as unmaintained > > > and deprecated") this driver was marked as "will be removed soon". 5 > > > years seems long enough to have it stick around after that, so finally > > > remove the thing now. > > > > Why to remove? This driver is still widely used, userspace in active > > maintenance and in last two years userspace software received more fixes > > for CD-RW support and pktcdvd. > > It was marked as "please remove" back in 2016, why wasn't that changed > if people were actually using this? And how should I know it if I was informed about it just today? > > Just now community person informed me that somebody is going to remove > > kernel support. > > Isn't there better ways to support the hardware needed than this driver? Is there any other driver in kernel which provide block layer for it? I do not know about any other.