>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.
Jörg
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