On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Jens Axboe wrote: > > It is much more difficult to report regressions than it is to use a > > workaround (i.e. boot a known good kernel). And I have plenty of > > sympathy for end-users who may assume that the people and corporations > > who create the breakage will take responsibility for fixing it. > > We're talking about a floppy driver here, and one for ATARI no less. > It's not much of a leap of faith to assume that > > a) those users are more savvy than the average computer user, as they > have to compile their own kernels anyway. > > b) that there are essentially zero of them left. The number is clearly > different from zero, but I doubt by much. > Well, that assumption is as dangerous as any. The floppy interface is still important even if most of the old mechanisms have been replaced. http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ https://amigastore.eu/en/220-sd-floppy-emulator-rev-c.html https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ > Hence it would stand to reason that if someone was indeed in the group > of ATARI floppy users that they would know how to report a bug. Yes, it would if the premise was valid. But the premise is just a flawed assumption.
