Re: New 2.2.16: Why has DVD-RAM support been removed from scsi.c?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 11:08:51 EST


> 2.2.16 was released just a few days ago and virtually the only
> difference between the 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 versions was that the
> required "ghost" device support has been removed.
>
> Can anyone say why this was done? It was working perfectly ok.

2.3.x has for a while had code so this wasnt needed and the table was
becoming very rapidly unmaintainable. sr devices are now writable

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