Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2023 17:58:09 +0100 | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: Linux 6.2-rc1 |
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On Thursday 05 January 2023 13:33:11 Jens Axboe wrote: > On 1/5/23 1:03?PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So nobody is going to be motivated to do any development in this area, > > and the best we can do is probably to just keep it limping along. > > Indeed... ... > > There's probably other cruft in pktcdvd that could be removed without > > removing the whole driver, but I do get the feeling that it's just > > less pain to keep the status quo, and that there isn't really much > > motivation for anybody to do anything else. > > I'm reluctant to touch it outside of changes that are driven by core > changes, and of course the motivation to remove it was driven by not > wanting to do that either. Any kind of re-architecting of how it works I > would not advocate for. It supposedly works well enough that none of the > (few) users are reporting issues with it, best to just let it remain > like that imho.
Yea, I agree. This code is in state when it is _used_ and not developed anymore. Nobody is really motivated to re-architecture or rewrite this code. Such work has big probability to break something which currently works fine. And because lot of users are on stable/LTS kernel versions, it is possible that we would not notice breakage earlier than (lets say) in 5 years.
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