Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: remove driver.

[Pali Rohár]

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.