Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:21:21 +0100
From:   Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= <pali@kernel.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: pktcdvd
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On Sunday 29 January 2023 14:55:27 Jens Axboe wrote:
> This does not look like a new issue (eg related to this series), and
> this is exactly one of the reasons we wanted to get rid of this code -
> basically nobody tests it, as nobody has the ability to. That means it's
> very time consuming to debug issues with it.

I understand. I could try to look at it. The main issue for me is that I
have not looked at this low level block device kernel area and I do not
understand what is the code around doing...

> What is the newest kernel you've run the pktcdvd driver on?

4.19 from Debian 10. I'm not sure if I used newer version as most stuff
is still on Debian 10 as I have not find a time to do upgrade of
everything.