From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:18:05 +0100 (MET)
Message-Id: <UTC200401181718.i0IHI5F26519.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, der.eremit@email.de
Subject: Re: Making MO drive work with ide-cd
Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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    From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>

    >> There is a patch by me with some rework by Jens Axboe in -mm that
    >> corrects this situation. It hasn't seen much testing, though.

    > OK, will find that and try later.

Hmm. Looked at it. But it cannot help. All it does is move
cdrom_read_capacity().

But ide-cd remains fundamentally broken for disks.
It sends cdrom commands, and they fail, and it does not do
disk things that are needed. First of all, we need partitions,
but ide-cd.c puts g->minors = 1.

Don't know whether Jens really wants to bend ide-cd.c until
it also handles disks, but it smells like a hack.

Andries
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