Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:20:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Message-Id: <200207141420.g6EEKtX4019135@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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>From andersen@codepoet.org Sat Jul 13 07:49:29 2002

>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?

We don't need just another unrelated interface but a generic
transort. CDROM_SEND_PACKET is not a generic interface, it is limited
to ATAPI CD-ROM's.


J?rg

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