block: remove pktcdvd driver
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 20:19:50 +0000 (14:19 -0600)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 7 Jul 2025 13:02:42 +0000 (07:02 -0600)
commit1cea5180f2f812c444ceebdc40f5d001bedd030d
tree9788671a6edace905d96c7ca2d1af269c24de3c9
parent10d77a8c60b2b117868a64875a55c4c8db6f1f2e
block: remove pktcdvd driver

This driver has long outlived it's utility, and it's broken and unloved.
The main use case for this was direct mount with UDF of cd-rw drives
that required 32kb packets. It would collect writes into that size and
write them out in multiples of that. That's not a common use case
anymore, the world has moved on from those kinds of media. To make
matters worse, it's actively breaking setups where it's not even
required or useful.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/fxg6dksau4jsk3u5xldlyo2m7qgiux6vtdrz5rywseotsouqdv@urcrwz6qtd3r/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/dcc4836e-6da9-4208-ad27-bbd44b3a2063@kernel.dk/
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-pktcdvd [deleted file]
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-pktcdvd [deleted file]
Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.rst [deleted file]
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
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drivers/block/Kconfig
drivers/block/Makefile
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c [deleted file]
include/linux/pktcdvd.h [deleted file]