On 10/7/19 9:02 AM, Mischa Baars wrote: > On Sun, 2019-10-06 at 09:10 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: [ .. ] >> I'm saying that you are comparing apples to oranges. The floppy driver >> might be older tech, but it's much more used than pktcdvd. It's not the >> case that we must pick one over the other, in terms of what stays and >> what goes. >> > > Yes we are, sort of. You can even have my pear. That's exactly the problem with your story :) > > A DVD is 4Gb and Blueray goes all the way up to 100Gb, while a floppy disc is 1.44Mb. > Who would want to write his backup files to 1.44Mb floppy disc these days? > Why do you keep on bringing up floppy? I was under the impression that you wanted to use pktdvd, not floppy... And as Jens made it clear, any potential removal of the floppy driver will have _zero_ influence on the future of pktdvd. And in either case, the main question here was: Will you rebase your project to latest mainline once it's ready? Or will you settle on a kernel version to do your development on, and continue using that for your project? Incidentally: I _do_ know of one company who happily will provide you with a stable OS to base your development on ... three, actually ... Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg HRB 247165 (AG München), GF: Felix Imendörffer
