Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264080AbTKJTgw (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:36:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264082AbTKJTfP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:35:15 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:27667 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264080AbTKJTeP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:34:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:22:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Linus Torvalds cc: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa , John Bradford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 27 On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Quite frankly, if it's literally been broken since 2.3.x, I think the best > thing to do would be to remove the driver entirely. For no-longer-current hardware that would probably not be such a bad thing. > > Yeah, there's probably a fair number of those old CD-ROM drivers that > nobody uses with modern kernels (ie they might be used on some router that > hasn't been touched in forever, still running 2.2.x on a 8MB 386SX-16). Well, I ran DNS on such a beast with 1.2.13 (from memory) until Y2k scared me into updating the whole setup. But iptables is so much better than ipchains that I hope there are fewer people using 2.2 for routers! -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/