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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:52:06 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> The result of such bad hacks is that nobody really tests whether the new
> code works.

I want you to prove the three things your statement says:

 - that this code is only implementable via a bad hack, and your idea is 
   implementable via a better hack
 - Andre's Code is - without a look at it - ugly
 - Unification changesets stay untested

> Depending on the kernel version, this either causes a system panic or
> just does not work at all. As all ATAPI CD-writers and CD-rom drives
> have a fallback to ATA commands, nobody who does not like to use a
> writer will ever notice the problem. They simply access the CD-ROM as
> read only ATA disk. If ide-cd would have been banned this bug would have
> been fixed years ago.

Because we can't tell Linux users "your (once favorite) CD-ROM is not 
implemented in Linux (any more), and will never ever be". If we explicitly 
exclude hardware, where do we end?!

							Regards,
							Thunder
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