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pktcdvd: mark as unmaintained and deprecated

This driver is both orphaned, and not really useful anymore. Mark
it as such, and remove it in a future kernel after a release or
two.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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MAINTAINERS
··· 9551 9551 F: arch/mips/configs/pistachio*_defconfig 9552 9552 9553 9553 PKTCDVD DRIVER 9554 - M: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> 9555 - S: Maintained 9554 + S: Orphan 9555 + M: linux-block@vger.kernel.org 9556 9556 F: drivers/block/pktcdvd.c 9557 9557 F: include/linux/pktcdvd.h 9558 9558 F: include/uapi/linux/pktcdvd.h
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drivers/block/Kconfig
··· 384 384 allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems). 385 385 386 386 config CDROM_PKTCDVD 387 - tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" 387 + tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)" 388 388 depends on !UML 389 389 help 390 + Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the 391 + kernel in the near future! 392 + 390 393 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say 391 394 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji 392 395 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer