Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 24 Dec 2022 11:03:27 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: remove driver. |
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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?
> 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?
thanks,
greg k-h
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