From: "Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:00:35 -0500
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: peter.read@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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On 02/09/06 11:29:28AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, perhaps what should be done is that someone needs to write and
> > maintain a patch that linux users can apply to cdrecord (since other OSs
> > are different and hence have no reason to use such a patch), to make it
> > behave in a manner which is sane on linux.  It should of course be
> > clearly marked as having been changed in such a way.  It should use udev
> > if available and HAL and whatever else is appropriate on a modern linux
> > system, and if on an old system it should at least not break the
> > interfaces that already worked on those systems in cdrecord.
> 
> Unfortunately is it a matter oif facts that all known patches for cdrecord
> break more things than they claim to fix.
> 
> J?rg

I've been using the cdrecord packaged by Debian for years without a single
problem and it has 35 patches included in the source package. Please
enlighten me as to what they've broken because obviously none of it has
affected me.

Jim.
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