Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:35:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt
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On 6 Nov 2003, bill davidsen wrote:
> 
> There is a problem with ide-scsi in 2.6, and rather than fix it someone
> came up with a patch to cdrecord to allow that application to work
> properly, and perhaps "better" in some way.

Wrong.

The "somebody" strongly felt that ide-scsi was not just ugly but _evil_, 
and that the syntax and usage of "cdrecord" was absolutely stupid.

That somebody was me.

ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed there 
was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because of a broken 
interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted to touch SCSI 
devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't really worth it.

The fact that nobody has bothered to fix ide-scsi seems to be a result of 
nobody _wanting_ to really fix it. 

So don't use it. Or if you do use it, send the fixes over.

		Linus

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