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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:49:29 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri Jul 12, 2002 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> CD burning is a side issue to stability and reliability. 
> 
> In terms of supporting old hardware most of that is irrelevant to cd
> recording anyway, so why do you care ? What you actually need is a
> generic interface for cd packet sending.

A generic interface for cd packet sending?  Sounds useful.  So
useful someone thought of it years ago, and called it the
CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl.  Its been in the kernel since Aug 1999.
What'll those crazy Linux CD-ROM people think of next?

 -Erik

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