Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:55:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Message-Id: <200207121955.g6CJtQur018433@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Erik Andersen wrote:

>cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would
>work regardless,

Wis you ever look at the cdrecord sources?

Cdrecord relies on libscg which is a generic SCSI transport library.
It has been first written in August 1986 when I wrote the first SCSI
pass through driver (for SunOS-3.0) - long before Adapted came out with
ASPI. In the 16 years of evolution, it has been ported to > 30
different platforms (not including CPU variants like sparc/x86).

If you force cdrecord to rely on CD-ROM only interfaces, you make Linux
unusable in general. Do you really like to create an unusable Linux just
to avoid creating a usable generic SCSI transport interface?
J?rg

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