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.
