Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932725AbWBUKQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:16:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932727AbWBUKQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:16:49 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:16855 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932725AbWBUKQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:16:49 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:16:44 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Joerg Schilling Cc: dhazelton@enter.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <20060221101644.GA19643@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Schilling , dhazelton@enter.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43EB7BBA.nailIFG412CGY@burner> <200602171502.20268.dhazelton@enter.net> <43F9D771.nail4AL36GWSG@burner> <200602201302.05347.dhazelton@enter.net> <43FAE10F.nailD121QL6LN@burner> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43FAE10F.nailD121QL6LN@burner> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1445 Lines: 35 Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-21: > Try to use my smake to find out whether you use non-portable constructs. > Smake warns you about the most common problems in makefiles. To complement this, running Solaris' /usr/{ccs,xpg4}/bin/make and BSD's portable make (just bootstrap www.pkgsrc.org to obtain "bmake" on Linux) is probably a much better approach since it tests real-world make implementations rather than an artificial and not widely available local flavor. > > and? The ATA/IDE drivers are more compact that requiring the _entire_ SCSI > > transport code and the specific SCSI driver for a device. > > This is an unproven statement. Proof sketch: Compile Linux without SCSI subsystem and see if cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc still works. > It seems that Linux is not used for developing SCSI applications, otherwise > I would not be the only person complaining about this missing feature. The other scenario is that nobody but you has problems developing/porting SCSI applications to Linux, or nobody but you has problems formulating useful bug reports. Holding on to 1999 bug reports that you cannot dig up doesn't work without paid support contract, as you've seen. -- Matthias Andree - 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/