From: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.2-rc1
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 17:58:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230106165809.vkz7lr7gi3xce22e@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <182bc0ee-51e3-b8c4-59f7-dcf702865a95@kernel.dk>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-06 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-25 22:07 Linux 6.2-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2022-12-26 19:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-12-26 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-12-26 21:03 ` Kees Cook
2022-12-26 22:10 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-12-27 0:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-12-27 1:32 ` Kees Cook
2022-12-27 5:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-12-28 3:40 ` Kees Cook
2022-12-28 14:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-01-07 0:06 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2022-12-26 22:41 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-12-26 21:10 ` Max Filippov
2022-12-26 22:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-12-27 8:29 ` Build regressions/improvements in v6.2-rc1 Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-12-27 8:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-01 1:33 ` Rob Landley
2023-01-01 12:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-04 6:32 ` Michael Ellerman
2023-01-06 15:10 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-06 15:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-06 15:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-17 16:42 ` Calculating array sizes in C - was: " John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-17 17:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-17 17:06 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-17 20:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-17 20:37 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-19 22:11 ` Michael.Karcher
2023-01-20 3:31 ` Rob Landley
2023-01-20 10:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-01-20 18:29 ` Michael.Karcher
2023-01-20 8:49 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-20 19:29 ` Michael Karcher
2023-01-21 21:26 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-06 15:39 ` Alex Deucher
2023-01-04 19:01 ` Linux 6.2-rc1 Pali Rohár
2023-01-04 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-04 20:56 ` Pali Rohár
2023-01-04 21:27 ` Pali Rohár
2023-01-04 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-04 21:43 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-05 11:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-01-05 15:26 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-05 17:42 ` Pali Rohár
2023-01-05 17:45 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-05 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-05 19:22 ` Pali Rohár
2023-01-05 19:40 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-05 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-05 20:33 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-06 16:58 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2023-01-06 17:04 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-28 19:34 ` pktcdvd Pali Rohár
2023-01-28 19:43 ` pktcdvd Linus Torvalds
2023-01-29 21:53 ` pktcdvd Jens Axboe
2023-01-29 21:55 ` pktcdvd Jens Axboe
2023-01-29 22:21 ` pktcdvd Pali Rohár
2023-01-29 22:34 ` pktcdvd Jens Axboe
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